Quotes About Automation

Pressed to identify useful financial innovations created during the past quarter-century, Paul A. Volcker, former Federal Reserve Chairman and recent chairman of President Obama's Economic Recovery Board, could single out only one: "The ATM.

When a machine begins to run without human aid, it is time to scrap it - whether it be a factory or a government.

Computers are stupid.

The thing that really excites me today is building a new AI-powered society.

Artificial intelligence is taking over a lot of things. Jobs are going to go but artists and theatre are not going anywhere because it is live performance.

I want to be a machine.

Almost everything is like a machine.

I really love to work like a machine.

Everything that humans can do a machine can do.

As for ourselves, we love our machines.

In the Machine Age, the company itself became a machine - a machine for making money.

He was thinking about automated teller machines. The term was aged and burdened by its own historical memory. It worked at cross-purposes, unable to escape the inferences of fuddled human personnel and jerky moving parts. The term was part of the process that the device was meant to replace. It was anti-futuristic, so cumbrous and mechanical that even the acronym seemed dated.

In fact, soon billions of smart things in the physical world will be sensing, responding, communicating, buying their own electricity and sharing important data, doing everything

If the skill is easily automated, it wasn't essential.

Don't these so-called advances also cause us to lose valuable mental skills? Each technological advance that provides a mental aid also brings along critics who decry the loss of the human skill that has been made less valuable. Fine, I say: if the skill is easily automated, it wasn't essential.

Machines that give too much feedback are like backseat drivers.

Statements like "Our GPS technology allows our driverless lawnmower to be guided by ten different satellites" are going to invite a ton of questions about satellites and robots

unlike a statement such as "Our lawnmower works like a Roomba in that it safely cuts your lawn without you having to break a sweat.

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A typical nurturing campaign may have an e-mail going out once each week, and the order might look like this: E-mail #1: Nurturing e-mail E-mail #2: Nurturing e-mail E-mail #3: Nurturing e-mail E-mail #4: Sales e-mail with a call to action

The proletarian was alienated not only because he was the servant of the bourgeois but because he became a stranger to the human condition, a sort of automaton filled with economic machinery and worked by and economic switch.

The stage in which the human being was a mere slave of the mechanical tyrant has been passed. When man himself becomes a machine, he attains to the marvelous freedom of unconsciousness, the freedom of the machine itself.

The melancholy fact is that the human personality has been almost wholly disassociated and and dissolved through mechanization.