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Quotes About Automation

Robots don't smile because they want to. They're programmed to do so-like humans recently.
~ Shirow Masamune
As information technology restructures the work situation, it abstracts thought from action.
~ Shoshana Zuboff
Indeed, automation does not fail often, which limits people's ability to practice the kinds of breakdown scenarios that still justifies their marginal presence in the system. Here, the human is painted as a passive monitor, whose greatest safety risks would lie in deskilling, complacency, vigilance decrements and the inability to intervene in deteriorating circumstances.
~ Sidney Dekker
I would love a robot butler.
~ Brett Ratner
I would love to have a robot at home.
~ Hugh Jackman
It's ironic that the only way to kill a zombie is to destroy its brain, because, as a group, they have no collective brain to speak of. There was no leadership, no chain of command, no communication or cooperation on any level. There was no president to assassinate, no HQ bunker to surgically strike. Each zombie is its own, self-contained, automated unit, and this last advantage is what truly encapsulates the entire conflict.
~ Max Brooks
Modem methods of production have given us the possibility of ease and security for all; we have chosen, instead, to have overwork for some and starvation for others. Hitherto we have continued to be as energetic as we were before there were machines; in this we have been foolish, but there is no reason to go on being foolish for ever.
~ Bertrand Russell
Is any job safe? I was hoping to say 'journalist,' but researchers are already developing algorithms that can gather facts and write a news story. Which means that a few years from now, a robot could be writing this column. And who will read it? Well, there might be a lot of us hanging around with lots of free time on our hands.
~ Daniel Lyons
Robotics are beginning to cross that line from absolutely primitive motion to motion that resembles animal or human behavior.
~ J. J. Abrams
When we get in a routine we can become zombie-like and shut down.
~ Tori Amos
We need to wake up to the fact that it is not immigrants who are causing economic dislocations. It is technology and an evolving economy that is pushing more and more Americans to the sidelines.
~ Andrew Yang
Technology has been advancing so fast that the number of jobs globally in manufacturing is declining. There is no way that Trump can bring significant numbers of manufacturing jobs back to the U.S.
~ Joseph Stiglitz
My argument is that there is already an automated machine to make pads. What I did - I reverse-engineered it to 'simple.' Anyone who wants to compete will have to come out with a simpler machine.
~ Arunachalam Muruganantham
Like a car, a camera is sold as a predatory weapon—one that's as automated as possible, ready to spring. Popular taste expects an easy, an invisible technology.
~ Susan Sontag
Jobs are changing. Jobs will be about the blending of the digital and industrial capabilities.
~ Jamie S. Miller
It's connectivity that really makes the industrial Internet work: it's giving the right information at the right time to the right person or right machine to make the right decision.
~ John T. Chambers
As a technologist, I see how AI and the fourth industrial revolution will impact every aspect of people's lives.
~ Fei-Fei Li
Fourth industrial revolution is a deadly combination of technology and Internet of Things.
~ N. Chandrababu Naidu
I think there are a lot of industries that are collecting a lot of data and have not yet considered the implications of machine learning but will ultimately use it.
~ Jeff Dean
Work has always been influenced by technology and will continue to be.
~ Sharan Burrow
We have to face the fact that countries are going to lose jobs to robotics. The only question that needs to be answered is which country will create and own the best robotic technology and have the infrastructure necessary to enable it.
~ Mark Cuban
Innovation hubs are going to be in cities focused on the industries and clients of that city. So in Houston, it's focused on our industrial companies, particularly the energy sector, robotics, and automation.
~ Julie Sweet
There is a fear of innovation because people are afraid of job loss.
~ Richard Edelman
In the year 3000, everything will be instant.
~ Dane Cook