Automation Quotes

• 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.

  Bill Gates

  Business, Technology, Marketing

  Bill Gates, Nathan Myhrvold, Peter Rinearson (1996). “The Road Ahead”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

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• You’re either the one that creates the automation or you’re getting automated.

  Tom Preston-Werner

  "Soon There May Only Be 2 Types Of Jobs: Coding Computers And Getting Bossed Around By Computers" by Alyson Shontell, www.businessinsider.com. August 13, 2014.

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• Automation does not need to be our enemy. I think machines can make life easier for men, if men do not let the machines dominate them.

  John F. Kennedy

  Men, Thinking, Enemy

  "Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1963".

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• Automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.

  Bill Gates

  Technology, Efficiency, Operations

  Bill Gates, Nathan Myhrvold, Peter Rinearson (1996). “The Road Ahead”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

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• The more we reduce ourselves to machines in the lower things, the more force we shall set free to use in the higher.

  Anna Brackett

  Freedom, Use, Machines

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• I think one of the most interesting things about automation isn't on the practical side. I think it's about creating magic and wonder and moments of splendor.

  Genevieve Bell

  Thinking, Creating, Interesting

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• As technology advances, it reverses the characteristics of every situation again and again. The age of automation is going to be the age of 'do it yourself.'

  Marshall McLuhan

  Technology, Media, Age

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• The age of automation is going to be the age of "do it yourself".

  Marshall McLuhan

  Age, Characteristics, Do It Yourself

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• Automation and technology don't cure behavioral ruts: they just create new instances of them.

  Kenneth Goldsmith

  Technology, Ruts, Cures

  Interview with Dave Mandl, believermag.com. October 1, 2011.

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• This may be the age of automation, but love is still being made by hand.

  Evan Esar

  Love Is, Hands, Age

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• We are rapidly moving into the post-industrial age, when we must redefine what is "productive" work, as more and more jobs are being replaced by automation, robotics, and artificial intelligence.

  Riane Eisler

  Jobs, Moving, Productive Work

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• Besides black art, there is only automation and mechanization.

  Federico Garcia Lorca

  Art, Black, Mechanization

  "Poet in New York". Book by Federico Garcia Lorca, 1940.

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• Everything I do is 100% automation, which means I'm just doing it live.

  Bradford Cox

  Mean

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Marketing automation is the technology that propels your business into a new era of relationship based marketing with quantifiable results. When powerful technology meets effective implementation and internal process management, your company will soon find itself on a journey that leads to new heights of business success.

  Jon Miller

  Powerful, Technology, Journey

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• Automation and technology would be a great boon if it were creative, if there were more leisure, more opportunity to engage in raising a family, providing guidance to the young, all the stuff we say we need. America will work if we're all in it together. It'll work when there's a shared sense of destiny. It can be done!

  Jerry Brown

  Technology, Opportunity, Destiny

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• And a revolution of automation finds machines replacing men in the mines and mills of America, without replacing their incomes or their training or their needs to pay the family doctor, grocer and landlord.

  John F. Kennedy

  Work, Men, Doctors

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• An organised system of machines, to which motion is communicated by the transmitting mechanism from a central automation, is the most developed form of production by machinery.

  Karl Marx

  Machines, Form, Machinery

  "Capital, Volume I". Book by Karl Marx, Vol. I, Ch. 15, Section 1, pg. 416, 1867.

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• "Jobs for every American" is doomed to failure because of modern automation and production. We ought to recognize it and create an income-maintenance system so every single American has the dignity and the wherewithal for shelter, basic food, and medical care. I'm talking about welfare for all. Without it, you're going to have warfare for all.

  Jerry Brown

  Jobs, Talking, Warfare

  "Jerry Brown Speaks Out on Welfare Reform: 'That's the Way I See It'". Jerry Brown's "We the People" talk show in the Pacifica Radio station, February/March 1995.

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• As a technologist, I see the trends, and I see that automation inevitably is going to mean fewer and fewer jobs. And if we do not find a way to provide a basic income for people who have no work, or no meaningful work, we’re going to have social unrest that could get people killed. When we have increasing production - year after year after year - some of that needs to be reinvested in society.

  Edward Snowden

  Meaningful, Jobs, Social Unrest

  "Edward Snowden: A 'Nation' Interview". Interview with Katrina vanden Heuvel and Stephen F. Cohen, www.thenation.com. October 28, 2014.

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• Persons grouped around a fire or candle for warmth or light are less able to pursue independent thoughts, or even tasks, than people supplied with electric light. In the same way, the social and educational patterns latent in automation are those of self-employment and artistic autonomy.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Educational, War, Independent

  1964 UnderstandingMedia, ch.33.

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• Governance allows organizations to...achieve unprecedented automation.

  Dick Taylor

  Organization, Achieve, Unprecedented

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• In many cases, jobs that used to be done by people are going to be able to be done through automation. I don't have an answer to that. That's one of the more perplexing problems of society.

  John Sculley

  Jobs, People, Done

  "Former Apple CEO John Sculley: the future of our health is in the cloud". Interview With Charles Arthur, www.theguardian.com. May 16, 2012.

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• So you will see us continue to advance the state of the art or take information that we have in our response data bases and have that drive automation or an automated response by some of our products.

  John W. Thompson

  Art, Data, Information

  "Interview: Symantec's John Thompson talks about big picture security". Interview with Ed Scannell, www.infoworld.com. June 16, 2004.

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• For the blue-collar worker, the driving force behind change was factory automation using programmable machine tools. For the office worker, it's office automation using computer technology: enterprise-resource-planning systems, groupware, intranets, extranets, expert systems, the Web, and e-commerce.

  Tom Peters

  Technology, Blue, Office

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• The most important part about tomorrow is not the technology or the automation, but that man is going to come into entirely new relationships with his fellow men. He will retain much more in his everyday life of what we term the naïveté and idealism of the child. I think the way to see what tomorrow is going to look like is just to look at our children.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Children, New Relationship, Technology

  "Connecting All The Dots" by Parag, Ayesha Khanna, bigthink.com.

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