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Quotes About Automation

When I look out in the future, I can't imagine a world, 500 years from now, where we don't have robots everywhere.
~ Rodney Brooks
There is a weird phenomenon where technology seems to be getting dumber in some ways as it gets smarter.
~ Bill Walsh
The two great aims of industrialism — replacement of people by technology and concentration of wealth into the hands of a small plutocracy — seem close to fulfillment.
~ Wendell Berry
Just in the past couple years, we've seen digital tools display skills and abilities that ... eat deeply into what we human beings do for a living.
~ Andrew McAfee
The difference between machines and human beings is that human beings can be reproduced by unskilled labour.
~ Arthur C. Clarke
I'm known for being very enthusiastic about using technology. A lot of the attraction is the way that it streamlines the process and takes a lot of the drudgery out of it.
~ Dave Gibbons
I mean, technology is amoral. It has no morality.
~ Robert Ballard
I have no skills with machines. I fear them, and because I cannot help attributing human qualities to them, I suspect that they hate me and will kill me if they can.
~ Robertson Davies
Today's meters are little computers.
~ Ros Hubbard
With each passing year, because of advances in computer technology, there are more things, each more sophisticated, that we aren't allowed to do any more.
~ Paul Lutus
Technology has come such a long way and you could pretty much do everything what's called 'in the box'. It means that it never has to leave your computer.
~ Tony Vincent
The liberating force of technology the instrumentalization of things turns into ... the instrumentalization of man.
~ Herbert Marcuse
In today's world of technology we should no longer be using outdated paper processes to accomplish tasks such as requisitions, reports, approvals, and purchase orders
~ Mark Cuban
Sales Force Automation Software Role in Better Sales Management
~ pepupsales
The desire to economize time and mental effort in arithmetical computations, and to eliminate human liability to error is probably as old as the science of arithmetic itself.
~ Howard Aiken
I'm really looking forward to a time when generations after us look back and say how ridiculous it was that humans were driving cars.
~ Sebastian Thrun
The cog is standing by, waiting for instructions.
~ Seth Godin
If we can measure it, we can do it faster. If we can put it in a manual, we can outsource it. If we can outsource it, we can get it cheaper.
~ Seth Godin
workers into machines. If we can measure it, we can do it faster. If we can put it in a manual, we can outsource it. If we can outsource it, we can get it cheaper.
~ Seth Godin
When you can program your own life, you're just going to program what you already like. Because of that, people's taste becomes much more narrow-minded.
~ Rob Zombie
What plethora of material goods can possibly atone for a waking life so humanly belittling, if not degrading, as the push-button tasks left to human performers?
~ Lewis Mumford
The only thing I do on a computer is play Texas Hold 'Em, really. Obviously my cell phone is a computer. My car is a computer. I'm on computers every day without actively seeking them out.
~ John Hawkes
We are becoming the servants in thought, as in action of the machine we have created to serve us.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
It couldn't sound like a dog, because K9 isn't a dog, but I made it sound as mechanical as possible.
~ John Leeson