Quotes About Automation

As expected, you get his machine. Someday, even the "call of nature" will be answered by a machine.

I'm good with machines. I know where to scratch, pet, and tickle them.

What the gears cannot do the computer might. The computer is the Proteus of machines. Its essence is its universality, its power to simulate

I see the player piano as the grandfather of the computer, the ancestor of the entire nightmare we live in, the birth of the binary world where there is no option other than yes or no and where there is no refuge.

Many beginning bot builders head down to the local junkyard and purchase a couple of starter motors, assuming that any low-cost, 12-volt DC motor capable of spinning up an automobile engine must be really powerful and torquey. True enough, but starter motors, being series wound, must be modified to make them reverse. While starter motors have been used successfully to drive robots, it takes

The I.B.M. machine has no ethic of its own; what it does is enable one or two people to do the computing work that formerly required many more people. If people often use it stupidly, it's their stupidity, not the machine's, and a return to the abacus would not exorcise the failing. People can be treated as drudges just as effectively without modern machines.

We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can... . The more of the details of our daily life we can hand over to the effortless custody of automatism, the ore our higher powers of mind will be set free for their own proper work

I have nothing against sperm banks, but they should really get rid of those automatic teller machines.

Many duct-taper jobs are the result of a glitch in the system that no one has bothered to correct—tasks that could easily be automated, for instance, but haven't been either because no one has gotten around to it, or because the manager wants to maintain as many subordinates as possible, or because of some structural confusion, or because of some combination of the three.

Just as the invention of new forms of industrial automation in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries had the paradoxical effect of turning more and more of the world's population into full-time industrial workers, so has all the software designed to save us from administrative responsibilities in recent decades ultimately turned us all into part or full-time administrators.

in real statistical analyses the computer takes over the tedium of arithmetic juggling.

What happens to this kind of business when the data superhighway arrives? . . . No sales force, no inventory costs, no royalties to Nintendo or Sega, no marketing costs, no advertising costs, no executive parking spaces. This is a new and exciting business model, not just for games, and not even just for software, but for a host of products and services that can be sold or delivered via an electronic underground.

I wish to God these calculations had been executed by steam.

Thank God for machines. They can make a dog sing!

Robots will neither be common nor very good in 2014, but they will be in existence.

The good news in investing is there are no HR problems. If there are no humans, there are no problems!

If the human being is condemned and restricted to perform the same functions over and over again, he will not even be a good ant, not to mention a good human being.

The computing world is very good at things that we are not. It is very good at memory.

The great thing about crummy software is the amount of employment it generates.

We are entering a new phase in human history - one in which fewer and fewer workers will be needed to produce the goods and services for the global population.

Probably the TV show I've watched the most is 'How It's Made' on the History Channel. I could watch 24 hours of 'How It's Made' and never get bored.

The way that the robotics market is going to grow, at least in the home, is that we'll have a number of different special purpose robots.

If robots are to clean our homes, they'll have to do it better than a person.

Television is the triumph of machine over people.