Quotes About Automation

It used to be the program's purpose to instruct our computers; it became the computer's purpose to execute our programs.

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

More and more software would just increase the number of tasks that the computer would help solve.

Owning a computer without programming is like having a kitchen and using only the microwave oven

The great benefit of computer sequencers is that they remove the issue of skill, and replace it with the issue of judgement

The computers are in control. We just live in their world.

The computers are not replacing mathematicians; they are breeding them.

It's amazing to me that we let humans drive cars... It's a bug that cars were invented before computers.

Computers are everywhere and you can't even begin to function with a computer unless you have comprehension and an understanding of the English language.

Some traders still think that a computer could not trade as well as they can.

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

If you don't know anything about computers, just remember that they are machines that do exactly what you tell them but often surprise you in the result.

Man should rule with computers, not vice versa.

Don't use hands to do things that can be efficiently done by the computer.

The computer, being a mechanical moron, can handle only quantifiable data.

Technique has taken over the whole of civilization. Death, procreation, birth all submit to technical efficiency and systemization.

I Try to design things that someone like myself would like to use which is that it just works, and you don't have to think about it at all

The tape runs out. The recorder clicks off automatically.

automation, for all its benefits, can take a toll on the performance and talents of those who rely on it.

The choices we make, or fail to make, about which tasks we hand off to machines shape our lives and the place we make for ourselves in the world.

Automation turns us from actors into observers. Instead of manipulating the yoke, we watch the screen. That shift may make our lives easier, but it can also inhibit the development of expertise.

Just because it's automatic doesn't mean it works.

Eventually, all cars are going to be autonomous.

I love electronics.