Quotes About Automation

Hitherto it is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being.

Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done.

Interchangeable parts don't, leakproof seals aren't, and self-starters won't.

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

Ours is the age that is proud of machines that think and suspicious of men who try to.

The greatest task before civilization at present is to make machines what they ought to be, the slaves, instead of the masters of men.

Machinery makes men like itself.

Machinery is the subconscious mind of the world.

Companies are run by computers. Profit margins are sliced thin. And no manager dare raise his eyes from his accounts long enough to learn the names of his staff. It's the price we pay for progress.

You mere device, he gnarled. You platitude! Your Gollux ex machina!

algorithms.

Technology will play an increasingly important role in business, and employees will be required to interact constantly with it. It will create an unprecedented revolution in the way we work, dramatically changing jobs within almost all organizations.

We're going to have robots in the home, but they're not going to be walking. Legs are complicated, unreliable and costly. Robots are going to look and be designed to meet the function they're supposed to perform. People will still name them and connect with them.

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

Our aspiration must be to reform, upgrade and enlarge our education system - and to make it relevant to 21st century realities of the digital economy, genomics, robotics and automation.

Personally, I'm not afraid of a robot uprising. The benefits far outweigh the threats.

The best computer is a man, and it's the only one that can be mass-produced by unskilled labor.

Nobody should have to be a systems integrator to make a convergence network work in their home

Computers can solve all kinds of problems except the unemployment problem they create.

The human worker will go the way of the horse.

The basis of computer work is predicated on the idea that only the brain makes decisions and only the index finger does the work.

Technology should do the hard work so people can do the things that make them the happiest in life.

Google is working on self-driving cars, and they seem to work. People are so bad at driving cars that computers don't have to be that good to be much better.

As information technology restructures the work situation, it abstracts thought from action.