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Quotes About Automation

I automate some tasks and delegate many others. Doing research, job organization, data processing, field surveys, and plan preparation can be tedious, detailed work.
~ Mark Mason
Now one person doing the job of one and a half. So as an employer I can get two people to do the work of three, and think about what that does for profits.
~ Nick Hanauer
Suddenly, in the early 20th century, there were thousands of men with essentially nothing to do. The farm work, as well as other work, was being handled by machines.
~ Peter Buffett
Self-driving cars will enable car-sharing even in spread-out suburbs. A car will come to you just when you need it. And when you are done with it, the car will just drive away, so you won't even have to look for parking.
~ Sebastian Thrun
The fourth and final step is that the human isn't needed much at all because the program on its own is so strong.
~ Tyler Cowen
Life in this society being, at best, an utter bore and no aspect of society being at all relevant to women, there remains to civic-minded, responsible, thrill-seeking females only to overthrow the government, eliminate the money system, institute complete automation and destroy the male sex.
~ Valerie Solanas
Machines with interchangeable parts can now be constructed with great economy of effort. In spite of much complexity, they perform reliably. Witness the humble typewriter, or the movie camera, or the automobile.
~ Vannevar Bush
Its agents -- not even human equivalent on this primitive hardware -- raced through the ship's automation
~ Vernor Vinge
Chess programs are our enemies, they destroy the romance of chess. They take away the beauty of the game. Everything can be calculated.
~ Unknown
Mechanization best serves mediocrity.
~ Frank Lloyd Wright
If the machines can take the drudgery out of it and just leave us with the joy of drawing, then that's the best of both worlds - and I'll use those computers!
~ Don Bluth
Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age.
~ Bertrand Russell
As a programmer, it is your job to put yourself out of business. What you do today can be automated tomorrow.
~ Douglas McIlroy
The three principal trends affecting how we do business in the newspaper production industry might best come under the headings: automation, diversification, distributed print.
~ Eric Bell
Yeah, computers are going to take over the programming business because they have become so fast recently that they can solve the Halting Problem in five seconds flat.
~ Craig Bruce
Google has already tested robot cars in San Francisco. If they can navigate San Francisco, they can probably manage just about anywhere.
~ Norman Foster
Humans are the worst control system to put in front of a car.
~ Peter Diamandis
In the future, you'll simply jump into your car, turn on the Internet, turn on a movie and sit back and relax and turn on the automatic pilot, and the car will drive itself.
~ Michio Kaku
The self driving car is not self-aware. It's just driving; it's not thinking.
~ Eric Schmidt
The cars themselves are getting smarter and will be increasingly able to assist drivers - to the point where the cars will be completely automated.
~ Robert James Thomson
Your car should drive itself. It's amazing to me that we let humans drive cars... It's a bug that cars were invented before computers.
~ Eric Schmidt
The same computers that make it impossible for you to cheat on your income tax can ensure that the blood of your group is in the ambulance that picks you up from a car smash.
~ John Brunner
The computer is a moron.
~ Peter Drucker
Hay demasiados dedos en los botones
~ Unknown