Quotes About Automation

Every company is a technology company, regardless of what business they think they're in. A bank is just an IT company with a banking license."†

We cannot achieve deployments on-demand if we always have to wait weeks or months for production or test environments. The countermeasure is to create environments that are on demand and completely self-serviced, so that they are always available when we need them.

The goal is clear: enable fast and safe deployments into production, and for the first time in years, do it using the same environments across Dev, Test, and Production.

We cannot achieve deployments on demand if each of our production code deployments take weeks or months to perform (i.e., each deployment requires 1,300 manual, error-prone steps involving up to three hundred engineers). The countermeasure is to automate our deployments as much as possible, with the goal of being completely automated so they can be done self-service by any developer.

We cannot achieve deployments on demand if every code deployment requires two weeks to set up our test environments and data sets, and another four weeks to manually execute all our regression tests. The countermeasure is to automate our tests so we can execute deployments safely and to parallelize them so the test rate can keep up with our code development rate.

She's often heard that IT is the nerve center of the entire organization, because over the last thirty years almost every business process has been automated through IT systems. But for whatever reason, businesses have allowed their nervous system to become degraded, like multiple sclerosis disrupting the flow of information within the brain and between the brain and the body.

To mitigate these types of problems, we strive to reduce the number of handoffs, either by automating significant portions of the work or be reorganizing teams so they can deliver value to the customer themselves, instead of having to be constantly dependent on others.

Instead of merely documenting the specifications of the production environment in a document or on a wiki page, we create a common build mechanism that creates all of our environments, such as for development, test, and production. By doing this, anyone can get production-like environments in minutes, without opening up a ticket, let alone having to wait week.s

When the computers developed, they would take over a good deal of the burden of the politicians, and sooner or later would also take over their power,

in other words then, if a machine is expected to be infallible, it cannot also be intelligent.

Humans were still in the loop but no longer in control.

Software was born. Numerical codes would be granted full control—including the power to modify themselves.1

Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.

I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.

In a properly automated and educated world, then, machines may prove to be the true humanizing influence. It may be that machines will do the work that makes life possible and that human beings will do all the other things that make life pleasant and worthwhile

The word "robot" is from a Czech word meaning "compulsory labor.

The machines do not solve problems with greater insight than men do, only faster. Only faster!

When one's home has a really excellent computer capable of reaching other computers anywhere in the Galaxy, one scarcely needs to budge, you know.

One way of saving on energy use would be to do away with unnecessary transportation. For instance, people commute between work and home, or travel long distances to engage in business conferences. With the development of improved communications and increasing automation, it will become possible in the not-too-distant future, for people to control and maintain business operations and machinery at a distance.

If it's the product of nonhuman minds and hands, what may seem primitive may, in actual fact, be merely nonhuman.

the telemetrists began to use a computer to program the computer that designed the program for the computer that programmed the robot-controlling computer. There was nothing but confusion.

Any accident involving a robot-driven car would set off another antirobot riot.

And then, when human beings arrive, the robots can be restored to more robotic schemes of behavior.

robot = máquina + computadora.