automation quotes

Progressively saved by the machine from the anxieties that bound his hands and mind to material toil, relieved of a large part of his work and compelled to an ever-increasing speed of action by the devices which his intelligence cannot help ceaselessly creating and perfecting, man is about to find himself abruptly plunged into idleness.

Why go to a machine when you could go to a human being?

Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers.

The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.

Perhaps one day we will have machines that can cope with approximate task descriptions, but in the meantime, we have to be very prissy about how we tell computers to do things.

I like the word ‚autopilot‘ more than I like the word ‚self-driving.‘ ‚Self-driving‘ sounds like it’s going to do something you don’t want it to do. ‚Autopilot‘ is a good thing to have in planes, and we should have it in cars.

My opinion is it’s a bridge too far to go to fully autonomous cars.

You’ll see more and more perfection of that – computer as servant. But the next thing is going to be computer as a guide or agent.

We’re going to be able to ask our computers to monitor things for us, and when certain conditions happen, are triggered, the computers will take certain actions and inform us after the fact.

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

The factory is the machine that builds the machine.

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