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We have already seen some instances of systemic risk in recent times in the Asian financial crisis. But what sparked off the Asian financial crisis? Automated trading programmes! -- Paul Virilio
Automated call centers are only the most obvious way speech recognition will be used. The software is now becoming sophisticated enough to identify speakers through 'voiceprints,' akin to fingerprints, eventually reducing the need for personal identification numbers. -- Alex Berenson
Television is simply automated daydreaming. -- Lee Loevinger
Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother. -- Beverly Jones
The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom. -- C. Northcote Parkinson
People are leaving trails everywhere they go; automated web crawlers tell you an awful lot about their social activities. The flow of information in fundamentally unobtrusive ways into social control organisations has risen dramatically. -- Whitfield Diffie
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
In the late 1970s, when I was a professor at Caltech, I pioneered four instruments for analyzing genes and proteins that revolutionized modern biology - and one of these, the automated DNA sequencer, enabled the Human Genome Project. -- Leroy Hood
If you think about the history of the PC industry, the PC industry has essentially been nothing but acquisitions by one company or another. Dell is the outlier. Dell built its own culture. They automated themselves to be the most efficient manufacturer. -- Eric Schmidt
Over the eons I've been a fan of, and sucker for, each latest automated system to 'simplify' and 'bring order to' my life. Very early on this led me to the beautiful-and-doomed Lotus Agenda for my DOS computers, and Actioneer for the early Palm. -- James Fallows
Recently, I have come to assume that any call to my landline is from a telemarketer or an automated call from Terminex, letting me know that our regularly scheduled pest-extermination service will occur on its regular schedule. So I usually ignore my home phone. -- Susan Orlean
Pretty soon we'll have robots in our society, you're going to have a lot of automated processes that used to be done by people - this is happening. Society and technology is changing so fast, and the impact of the change on society and technology is global, not local. -- Jose Padilha
A lot of jobs today are being automated; what happens when you extend that concept to very important areas of society like law enforcement? What happens if you start controlling the behavior of criminals or people in general with software-running machines? Those questions, they look like they're sci-fi but they're not. -- Jose Padilha
We know that U.S. voters, and world leaders, allow Obama extraordinary leeway when it comes to deadly drone strikes, precisely because of his politics, character and background. (We are talking about a man, after all, who won the Nobel Peace Prize while ordering the automated killing of suspected Muslim terrorists around the world). -- Glenn Greenwald
Monorail tracks are prefabricated and can be erected relatively quickly: Simply dig a hole every 120 feet or so, plop down a column, and lift the track into place. Because the systems operate above traffic, collisions with errant motorists are never an issue. The trains are automated, saving millions in labor costs in the long run. -- Brendan I. Koerner
The start-up life kept me busy and surfaced the problem of not being able to stay on top of my personal finances, which led me to invent Mint.com. I was working 80-hour weeks, and had done enough preliminary work and research to know I had a big idea: To make money management effortless and automated. -- Aaron Patzer
If you wait to see how much money you have left at the end of the month to put toward savings, the answer may be zero. So, set up an automated monthly transfer from your checking to savings account. Once you lock into that commitment, you'll be forced to scale back spending to make ends meet. -- Suze Orman
To keep your he-man jaw muscles from smashing your precious teeth, the only set you have, the body evolved an automated braking system faster and more sophisticated than anything on a Lexus. The jaw knows its own strength. The faster and more recklessly you close your mouth, the less force the muscles are willing to apply. -- Mary Roach
When we did the first 'Uncharted,' we weren't able to capture the audio with the performances. We would go back and do A.D.R. - Automated Dialogue Replacement - in which you would hear yourself and then repeat your line. Even when we were doing that, there was a slight disconnect because you were trying to recreate a performance. -- Nolan North
Automating a mess yields an automated mess. -- Michael Martin Hammer
You're either the one that creates the automation or you're getting automated. -- Tom Preston-Werner
Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother. -- Beverly Jones
For at least 2,000,000 years men have been reproducing and multiplying on a little automated spaceship called earth. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
As a programmer, it is your job to put yourself out of business. What you do today can be automated tomorrow. -- Douglas McIlroy
Technology is super smart and also completely dumb. It doesn't know what you're putting on there. It works almost in an automated fashion. -- Lance Ulanoff
The cars themselves are getting smarter and will be increasingly able to assist drivers - to the point where the cars will be completely automated. -- Robert James Thomson
One of the saddest sights to me has always been a human at a keyboard doing something by hand that could be automated. It's sad but hilarious. -- Boris Beizer
For example, the vast majority of security break-ins occur as a result of problems with known fixes. With an automated system, you can keep up to date. -- Ben Horowitz

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