Quotes About Automation

one study found that 88 percent of the loss of US manufacturing jobs between 2006 and 2013 was due to automation and related factors),69 it is easy to blame trade with other countries for hollowing out industrial towns and throwing workers onto the unemployment line.

Technology is the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it.

We wanted a labor force, but humans came.

Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.

as the AI researcher Pedro Domingos so memorably put it, "People worry that computers will get too smart and take over the world, but the real problem is that they're too stupid and they've already taken over the world."21

To think like a computer programmer, it helps to be lazy.)

Tests that take too long to run end up not being run.

The more automated our experience becomes, the less involved we are in the art of living.

It's our patented Three Laws of Robotics. They're a fundamental part of every robot we manufacture, and we do not continue building or programming until it has become an integral part of them.

The optimists claim that through the course of evolution the nervous system has become adept at "chunking" bits of information so that processing capacity is constantly expanded. Simple functions like adding a column of numbers or driving a car grow to be automated, leaving the mind free to deal with more data. We

Infrastructure as Code." If you're going to do operations reliably, you need to make it reproducible and programmatic.

The new sysadmin won't power down a machine, replace a failing disk drive, reboot, and restore from backup; he'll write software to detect a misbehaving EC2 instance automatically, destroy the bad instance, spin up a new one, and configure it, all without interrupting service. With

Perl was designed as a programming language for automating system administration.

The new sysadmin won't power down a machine, replace a failing disk drive, reboot, and restore from backup; he'll write software to detect a misbehaving EC2 instance automatically, destroy the bad instance, spin up a new one, and configure it, all without interrupting service.

With automation at this level, the new "ops guy" won't care if he's responsible for a dozen systems or 10,000. And the modern BOFH is, more often than not, an old-school sysadmin who has chosen not to adapt.

They've finally come up with the perfect office computer. If it makes a mistake, it blames another computer.

Computers are to design as microwaves are to cooking.

The Bots are taking over

The evolution of ingenuity is stagnating from the technogenic devaluation of labor.

God is too busy creating and maintaining order in the universe, so much so that he doesn't care if you sin more or if you do great deeds for the day. Automation is at work.

There will come a time that many of us will be forced to say 'thank you' to the robot(s) after performing a great task that was supposed to be carried by a human being.

Internet of Things is a vision where every object in the world has the potential to connect to the Internet and provide their data so as to derive actionable insights on its own or through other connected objects

we program our computers and thereafter they program us. Even

With this offhand example, Pichai gives voice to Silicon Valley's reigning assumption, which can be boiled down to this: Anything that can be automated should be automated. If it's possible to program a computer to do something a person can do, the computer should do it. Missing from this view is any consideration of the pleasures and responsibilities of everyday life.