Quotes About Automation

Customers buy Basecamp without ever having to interact with us. If they do have a question, we handle everything via email. We've been in the business of automation. We've never really valued full service.

Computers can see, and understand what people say via speech recognition.

Major power and telephone grids have long been controlled by computer networks, but now similar systems are embedded in such mundane objects as electric meters, alarm clocks, home refrigerators and thermostats, video cameras, bathroom scales, and Christmas-tree lights - all of which are, or soon will be, accessible remotely.

Instead of five hundred thousand average algebra teachers, we need one good algebra teacher. We need that teacher to create software, videotape themselves, answer questions, let your computer or the iPad teach algebra... The hallmark of any good technology is that it destroys jobs.

When it comes to their capacity to screw things up, computers are becoming more human every day.

We appear to be in an up swing trend of artificial intelligence creating artificial experts.

One machine can do the work of 50 ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

The technological revolution at home makes it much easier for computers to do our work.

It's a real shame that vibrators can't kill spiders or mow the lawn.

The transformation can only be accomplished by man, not by hardware (computers, gadgets, automation, new machinery). A company can not buy its way into quality.

Computers are like humans - they do everything except think.

The danger of computers becoming like humans is not as great as the danger of humans becoming like computers.

Computers can do better than ever what needn't be done at all. Making sense is still a human monopoly.

One of the most feared expressions in modern times is 'The computer is down.'

There's more technology in your car than there is in your computer. It's got thousands of parts in it. It's extremely sophisticated, all that robotics.

You'll see more and more perfection of that - computer as servant. But the next thing is going to be computer as a guide or agent.

People who tell computers what to do, and people who are told by computers what to do.

Computers make excellent and efficient servants, but I have no wish to serve under them.

The difference between us and a computer is that, the computer is blindingly stupid, but it is capable of being stupid many, many million times a second.

Why does every plane have two pilots? Really, you only need one pilot. Let's take out the second pilot. Let the bloody computer fly it.

The computer would do anything you programmed it to do.

The computer is a moron.

No operational commander should have to assign a soldier a task that could be done as well by a computer, a remote sensor, or an unmanned airplane.

If computers take over, it will serve us right.