Quotes About Automation

A computer is a stupid machine with the ability to do incredibly smart things, while computer programmers are smart people with the ability to do incredibly stupid things.

clearly no thinking presence behind any of the actions of the cells. It all just happens, smoothly and repeatedly and so reliably

He invested heavily in an automated general store in which customers would put a coin in a slot and a moment later a bag of coal, potatoes, onions, nails, hairpins, or other desired commodity would come sliding down a chute to them. The system never worked. It never came close to working.

I'm also a technophile. Show me a problem, and I'll look for technology to fix it.

New Rule: You can't force the ATM to do something it doesn't want to do. Excuse me, lady in front of me at the Citibank ATM, but you've been standing there punching buttons for ten minutes--what are you trying to do, write a novel on it? You hear those beeping noises? That's the ATM saying, Stop it, you're hurting me. A chicken would have gotten forty bucks out of that thing by now just by pecking the buttons randomly.

The standard library saves programmers from having to reinvent the wheel.

The human body is a machine which winds its own springs.

Some day they'd invent call discarding. Like call forwarding, only it would hang up preemptively on telemarketers.

You can also get crazy and use Chat Commands to trigger animations on the stream or even to change the colors of the lights you have set up in your studio (it would send a command to your smart lightbulb app connected to your wi-fi).

In consequence of inventing machines, men will be devoured by them.

The two inventions of the century, the car and the computer, are gradually coming closer together.

Pretty much all of my inventions come about the same way. I have an everyday problem or something that I'm too lazy to do, so I make a machine that does it for me.

Once upon a time, if you were going to get a loan from me, I would have had to look at your file, and I would have to make a decision about whether youre going to get a loan. Maybe we would meet and talk about it. There would be some level of human involvement and human interaction. Now, a lot of this is determined by an algorithm.

What's not to like about a curling iron that does all the work itself?

I will use my expertise in technology to bring the IRS up to date.

When you go to Japan, there is such a talent shortage that the debate about AI taking jobs is almost non-existent. The debate is, how can we automate this so we can get all the work done?

La conexión entre ingreso y dignidad también sugiere por qué algo parecido a una renta universal garantizada, como solución a la pérdida de empleos por culpa de la automatización, no conseguirá la paz social ni hacer felices a quienes la reciban.

Indeed, woman can be a machine run wild, or a machine can be a better, more subjugated, and efficient woman.

Mechanization best serves mediocrity.

If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.

Television is the triumph of machine over people.

The triumph of machine over people.

Men have become the tools of their tools.

But lo! men have become the tools of their tools.