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Automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency. -- Bill Gates
Automation and technology don't cure behavioral ruts: they just create new instances of them. -- Kenneth Goldsmith
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
Besides black art, there is only automation and mechanization. -- Federico Garcia Lorca
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
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
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
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
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
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
The age of automation is going to be the age of "do it yourself". -- Marshall McLuhan
The written word still enjoyed a certain prestige here. It was a sluggish country. -- William Gibson
This may be the age of automation, but love is still being made by hand. -- Evan Esar
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
In terms of production, newspaper publishers are continuing to focus principally on automation as the key to reducing production costs and general overheads. -- Eric Bell
The three principal trends affecting how we do business in the newspaper production industry might best come under the headings: automation, diversification, distributed print. -- Eric Bell
Skilled workers historically have been ambivalent toward automation, knowing that the bodies it would augment or replace were theoccasion for both their pain and their power. -- Shoshana Zuboff
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
In many instances, automation in itself facilitates more diversification opportunities, in freeing up production capacity and enabling shorter run, more targeted copies, and it can also be essential in the interface with additional and new processes such as web drying, inkjetting etc. -- Eric Bell
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
If I thought that raising the minimum wage was the best way to help people increase their pay, I would be all for it, but it isn't. If you raise the minimum wage, you're going to make people more expensive than a machine. And that means all this automation that's replacing jobs and people is only going to be accelerated. -- Marco Rubio
In terms of new press orders the differences currently are not so great as you might imagine. On the whole, Asian customers in the last couple of years have been looking for speed and capacity increases with less emphasis on automation, but this too is now changing as rising prices also affect Asia and the benefits of waste reduction become clear. -- Eric Bell
The history of work has been, in part, the history of the worker's body. Production depended on what the body could accomplish with strength and skill. Techniques that improve output have been driven by a general desire to decrease the pain of labor as well as by employers' intentions to escape dependency upon that knowledge which only the sentient laboring body could provide. -- Shoshana Zuboff
I couldn't tell you in any detail how my computer works. I use it with a layer of automation. -- Conrad Wolfram
I see three forces militating in favor of growing inequality: increasing measurement of worker value added, automation through smart software, and globalization. -- Tyler Cowen
All in all, I don't think robots and greater automation can bring about a utopian world as I imagined it would as a kid 50 years ago. -- Stanley Druckenmiller
If cheap immigrant labor is made unavailable, employers can hire Americans at a higher wage, or replace low-wage immigrant workers with technology and automation, which will create a smaller number of skilled jobs for Americans. -- Jan C. Ting
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
Well, you can say there is a self driving car. I'm seeing the automation of vehicles. Really, computer-assisted driving. I think that is really interesting to us because we are taking all of the sensors technologies and putting them in cars and making people safer. -- Tony Fadell
Governance allows organizations to...achieve unprecedented automation. -- Dick Taylor
Everything I do is 100% automation, which means I'm just doing it live. -- Bradford Cox
You're either the one that creates the automation or you're getting automated. -- Tom Preston-Werner
The automation of warfare has, then, come a long way since the Persian Gulf War of 1991. -- Paul Virilio
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
Our whole economy and society is already being changed by the fact that we have increasing unemployment, mass unemployment and that's what we're facing in the future because of increasing automation. -- Gemma Chan
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

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