Automation Quotes

“The more you can automate, the more you can get to a lights-out environment, the more you can get people out of the process, the more you can get variability and error out of the process.”

“The whole of the developments and operations of analysis are now capable of being executed by machinery.”

“The problem with automation is that it can make you stupid.”

“We're going to make the machine our slave, not the other way around.”

“The computer should be doing the hard work. That's what it's paid to do, after all.”

“It is unworthy of excellent men to lose hours like slaves in the labour of calculation which could safely be relegated to anyone else if machines were used.”

“The goal is to empower users, not to automate them.”

“You can't solve the problem of automation with a slogan.”

“The modern industrial revolution is similarly bound to devalue the human brain.”

“Go away or I will replace you with a small shell script.”

“Automation is the future. And it’s not just for the factory floor anymore.”

“It is no longer enough to automate information flows about us; the goal now is to automate us.”

“We are entering a new phase in human history — a phase in which the perennial scarcity of human labor is being replaced by a surplus of human labor.”

“If you look at the history of technology, it's been a process of putting more and more things that are routine into the technology.”