Quotes About Automation

And we should keep our minds open, or at least ajar, to concepts on the fringe of science fiction. Flaky American futurologists aren't always wrong. They remind us that a superintelligent machine is the last instrument that humans may ever design - the machine will itself take over in making further steps.

There is no question we are in an era of people asking, 'Is the Robocalypse upon us?

In the future, I'm sure there will be a lot more robots in every aspect of life. If you told people in 1985 that in 25 years they would have computers in their kitchen, it would have made no sense to them.

It makes no sense to make people drive cars.

It's a no-brainer for me that at some point our cars will have the ability to drive themselves.

Put all of your savings on autopilot, and you won't likely notice the missing cash.

And nowadays, the idea of AI is not really science fiction anymore - it's just science fact.

Self-driving cars are the natural extension of active safety and obviously something we should do.

The computer is also not famous for having mercy.

See these protrusions here, here, and here. That's tech.

He touched the keyboard and the terminal displayed a list of all the activities he usually engaged in, then scanned through them. He could touch a key and it would go directly to the activity he wanted, skipping dozens of preliminaries, saving him many painful minutes of typing one character at a time.

If you've never programmed a computer, you should. There's nothing like it in the whole world. When you program a computer, it does exactly what you tell it to do. It's like designing a machine — any machine, like a car, like a faucet, like a gas-hinge for a door — using math and instructions. It's awesome in the truest sense: it can fill you with awe.

you want to be in charge of your machines, you have to learn to write code.

there aren't any 'jobs' left. Just financial engineering and politics. I'm not qualified for either. For one thing, I can't say 'meritocracy' with a straight face.

Computers can control you or they can lighten your work—if you want to be in charge of your machines, you have to learn to write code.

Paul Valéry pointed up in this sentence: Just as water, gas, and electricity are brought into our houses from far off to satisfy our needs in response to a minimal effort, so we shall be supplied with visual or auditory images, which will appear and disappear at a simple movement of the hand, hardly more than a sign.

The Analytical Engine weaves algebraical patterns just as the Jacquard loom weaves flowers and leaves.

rise of computers could mean that "man will become a passive, purposeless, machine-conditioned animal.

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Edwards continues by arguing that all this automation has not reduced the workload of the pilot a great deal; instead, it has increased the operational effectiveness of the system.

What was the point of having a dishwasher if you had to wash the stupid dishes first? When she grew up, she'd have a robot to do all the housework for her.

the definition of a machine is simple. It is anything that reduces human effort. Anything.

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

The greatest task before civilisation at present is to make machines what they ought to be, the slaves, instead of the masters of men; and if civilisation fails at the task, then without doubt it and its makers will go down to a common destruction.