Quotes About Mechanization

I shed many a tear when the steam engines went out of style on the railroads. I'd like to seem them come back, but I realize the diesels are more efficient.

Industrial technologies that allowed for increased mechanization in 19th-century armed forces also spurred Frederick Winslow Taylor to develop his 'Scientific Management' doctrine in Philadelphia steel mills.

Moment to moment, it turns out, is not God's conception, or nature's. It is man conversing with himself about and through a piece of machinery he created. We effectively became "time-keepers, and then time-savers, and now time-servers" with the invention of the clock.

I believe that the abominable deterioration of ethical standards stems primarily from the mechanization and depersonalization of our lives, a disastrous byproduct of science and technology. Nostra culpa!" Einstein wrote in a letter to his friend, psychiatrist Otto Juliusburger, in 1948

Humans] suffer, during their working hours, from the chronic boredom and frustration imposed by the sort of jobs that have to be done in order to satisfy the artificially stimulated demand for the fruits of fully mechanized mass-production.

Ford help him!

self-organization is often sacrificed for purposes of short-term productivity and stability. Productivity and stability are the usual excuses for turning creative human beings into mechanical adjuncts to production processes. Or for narrowing the genetic variability of crop plants. Or for establishing bureaucracies and theories of knowledge that treat people as if they were only numbers.

Like resilience, self-organization is often sacrificed for purposes of short-term productivity and stability. Productivity and stability are the usual excuses for turning creative human beings into mechanical adjuncts to production processes. Or for narrowing the genetic variability of crop plants. Or for establishing bureaucracies and theories of knowledge that treat people as if they were only numbers. Self-organization

The industrialist's dream was to replace them entirely—with machines.

The minutes of white-collar workers' lives were tapped out by typewriters and adding machines. They had the cheerfulness of robots, having lost the capacity to feel anything except boredom.

When a machine can do something better and faster than a person can, I am happy to let the machine do it.

Robots allow our employees to work safely, faster, and at less cost.

However, other machines changed the world even more profoundly. These were the machines which made use of the forces of nature instead of manpower.

People never touched one another. The custom had become obsolete, owing to the Machine.

The psychology of a complex mind must differ almost as much from that of a simple, mechanized mind as its psychology would from ours; because something that must underlie and perhaps be even greater than sex is involved.

Don't you have a machine that puts food into the mouth and pushes it down?

In the twenty-first century, the robot will take the place which slave labor occupied in ancient civilization.

the fast models of mechanization have taken over how we think about scholarship and ourselves. Slowing down is a matter of ethical import. To drive oneself as if one were a machine should be recognized as a form of self-harm.

The solution to the problem of economic recession of the nation is mass employment generation for the population and not mechanization as being done by almost all organization for mass production & profit

One who is constantly striving to force everything into a mechanical order at last becomes a machine himself and loses all human feeling.

Without technology humanity has no future, but we have to be careful that we don't become so mechanised that we lose our human feelings.

The machine yes the machine never wastes anybody's time never watches the foreman never talks back.

a huddle of robot sheep bleating their terror with mechanical lungs of a hundred horsepower.

Industrialization based on machinery, already referred to as a characteristic of our age, is but one aspect of the revolution that is being wrought by technology.