Welcome to our collection of insightful quotes on automation! As technology continues to evolve at a rapid pace, the concept of automation has become increasingly prominent in various industries, revolutionizing the way we work and live. From manufacturing and agriculture to healthcare and finance, automation has the potential to streamline processes, increase efficiency, and even redefine the nature of employment itself.
Automation is not merely about replacing human labor with machines; it represents a paradigm shift in how we approach tasks and problem-solving. It enables us to delegate repetitive and mundane tasks to algorithms and robots, freeing up human creativity and ingenuity for more complex endeavors. However, it also brings forth questions about job displacement, ethical considerations, and the future of work in an increasingly automated world. In this compilation, we delve into the thoughts and perspectives of thinkers, innovators, and leaders who have contemplated the implications of automation on society, economics, and human existence. Discover these compelling insights as you explore the quotes below.
Increasingly, the work we do is enabled more and more by new IT, including automation, robotics, and intelligent platforms. Pierre Nanterme
Iran is a complete Windows country when it comes to the Office automation side. Satya Nadella
I certainly think there are some skills we’ll lose as we hand things over to automation. I can barely remember my own phone number now, let alone the long list of numbers I used to know, and my handwriting has completely gone to pot. Hannah Fry
In the long term, artificial intelligence and automation are going to be taking over so much of what gives humans a feeling of purpose. Matt Bellamy
Industrial jobs are disappearing, and they will continue to disappear owing to productivity gains from automation. Thus, social models that were created to fit industrial and early service economies will no longer be viable. As the industrial workforce shrinks, the social model founded on it will go, too. Kersti Kaljulaid
To be sure, robotics are not the only job killers out there, with outsourcing stealing far more gigs than automation. Daniel Lyons
I couldn’t tell you in any detail how my computer works. I use it with a layer of automation. Conrad Wolfram
The impending destruction of jobs due to automation and AI technologies is definitely increasing the need for – and speed at which – we have to implement big solutions, such as a universal basic income. Andrew Yang
Sooner or later, the U.S. will face mounting job losses due to advances in automation, artificial intelligence, and robotics. Oren Etzioni
Software is the language of automation. Jensen Huang
Rather than wringing our hands about robots taking over the world, smart organizations will embrace strategic automation use cases. Strategic decisions will be based on how the technology will free up time to do the types of tasks that humans are uniquely positioned to perform. Clara Shih
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
What are we going to do as automation increases, as computers get more sophisticated? One thing that people say is we’ll retrain people, right? We’ll take coal miners and turn them into data miners. Of course, we do need to retrain people technically. We need to increase technical literacy, but that’s not going to work for everybody. Oren Etzioni
Automation is going to cause unemployment, and we need to prepare for it. Mark Cuban
Whatever you are studying right now, if you are not getting up to speed on deep learning, neural networks, etc., you lose. We are going through the process where software will automate software, automation will automate automation. Mark Cuban
Technology, through automation and artificial intelligence, is definitely one of the most disruptive sources. Alain Dehaze
Customers buy Basecamp without ever having to interact with us. If they do have a question, we handle everything via email. We’ve been in the business of automation. We’ve never really valued full service. Jason Fried
The fundamental problem here is that humans and automation approach the driving task differently. Karl Iagnemma
We’re at the beginning of the digitization and automation of biotech. Ryan Bethencourt
I see incredible opportunities for transportation to benefit from rapidly advancing automation, connectivity, and information technologies. Dan Lipinski
With greater extensibility and programmability, bitcoin can evolve to enable transformations in how all forms of property are secured and exchanged, how voting and governance function, including spilling into the automation of commercial law, audit, and accounting. Jeremy Allaire
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
Automation has emerged as a bigger threat to American jobs than globalization or immigration combined. Oren Etzioni
Employees have been worrying about the rising tide of automation for 200 years now, and for 200 years employers have been assuring them that new jobs will naturally materialize to take their place. Rutger Bregman
The structural changes of globalization and automation that has created concentrated wealth among some people who have had the right skills and the right opportunities has also created extraordinary disruption and havoc among the American middle-class. Ro Khanna
In addition to replacing many jobs, automation will also transform other jobs. Professions involving high touch, personal relationships – such as clergy, dentists, and financial advisors, for instance – face the least risk of automation but will nevertheless be profoundly transformed. Clara Shih
By 2018, automation is going to be in full swing in the United States and around the world. There are estimates that it could replace 50 percent of our jobs. That is an enormous shift. But even if we go through a phase where we have an unemployment valley from automation, there will be new jobs and new things for us to do. Gray Scott
There’s a lot of automation that can happen that isn’t a replacement of humans but of mind-numbing behavior. Stewart Butterfield
Automation provides us with wondrous increases of production and information, but does it tell us what to do with the men the machines displace? Modern industry gives us the capacity for unparalleled wealth – but where is our capacity to make that wealth meaningful to the poor of every nation? Robert Kennedy
As we continue down the path of automation, virtually every city will have 24-hour convenience stores, 24-hour libraries, 24-hour banks, 24-hour churches, 24-hour schools, 24-hour movie theaters, 24-hour bars and restaurants, and even 24-hour shopping centers. Thomas Frey
I think automation will eliminate certain types of jobs – lower income, lower-skilled jobs in manufacturing. But nobody knows whether it’s going to change the job basket of the 21st century, or be net positive, or net negative. Ro Khanna
Automation is no longer just a problem for those working in manufacturing. Physical labor was replaced by robots; mental labor is going to be replaced by AI and software. Andrew Yang
Documenting and recording paperwork, managing services like passport renewals, and processing patent applications are practices that could all be dramatically improved with robotic automation. Will Hurd
Our aspiration must be to reform, upgrade and enlarge our education system – and to make it relevant to 21st century realities of the digital economy, genomics, robotics and automation. Ram Nath Kovind
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
Income taxes are very poor at generating income from automation because the gains are realized by technology companies that are experts at not paying taxes. Andrew Yang
What is happening with automation and globalization, that’s not going away. Campbell Brown
‘Make in India’ is great, but ‘Make It Happen in India’ is even greater. Make It Happen in India is more than manufacturing. It’s about training, about education, about societal development and automation and engineering. Joe Kaeser
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
An ordinary person who wants to invest in the stock market or a mutual fund, or simply open a saving bank account, is bombarded by ever increasing compliance regulations under the pretext of automation, efficiency, better governance or prevention of money laundering. Sucheta Dalal
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
I think as automation gets even more and more prevalent, we’re going to need to learn how to code. Everybody does. Reshma Saujani
In the early days at Asymetrix, we were focusing on business automation. Paul Allen
There is no question that automation is – and has been since the start of the Industrial Revolution – displacing workers and creating disruption within the economy and labor market. Charlie Kirk
In 2017, there was a sudden recognition of several adverse societal consequences of information technology, from job losses due to automation to manipulation of public opinion, with significant political consequences. Moshe Vardi
People at the very top of the income scale also benefited from globalization and automation. But the income of working- and middle-class people in the developed world has stagnated. Moshe Vardi
Now, given the increasing importance of artificial intelligence, automation, machine learning, and other innovative technologies, we are evolving Accenture Digital to be even more relevant to our clients and drive even greater differentiation in the marketplace. Pierre Nanterme
Besides black art, there is only automation and mechanization. Federico Garcia Lorca
Many Western nations have made significant gains through automation and operational excellence, while emerging markets rely on ever-increasing numbers of workers. Each will improve their competitive position only by examining every element of operations to make existing resources more efficient and to deliver real value at lower cost. Dinesh Paliwal
My biggest worry is that no one seems to notice that we are not going to stop the technical progress that is going to continue to displace people through automation. Harper Reed
We know growing technological developments in artificial intelligence, automation and big data mean that democratic socialism in the 21st century must adapt to such a rapidly changing world. Clive Lewis
Automation is good, so long as you know exactly where to put the machine. Eliyahu Goldratt
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
Automation will significantly change many people’s lives in ways that may be painful and enduring. Moshe Vardi
Innovation hubs are going to be in cities focused on the industries and clients of that city. So in Houston, it’s focused on our industrial companies, particularly the energy sector, robotics, and automation. Julie Sweet
When the manufacturing decline began in earnest in 2001, the main culprits were the offshoring of jobs to China, with which we have no trade deal, and automation. William M. Daley
The automation of automation, the automation of intelligence, is such an incredible idea that if we could continue to improve this capability, the applications are really quite boundless. Jensen Huang
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 bottom line is that while automation is eliminating many jobs in the economy that were once done by people, there is no sign that the introduction of technologies in recent years is creating an equal number of well-paying jobs to compensate for those losses. Moshe Vardi
When I think about strong innovations in term of automation, robotics, cognitive computing, and artificial intelligence, they are coming a lot from the Philippines and from India as well. Pierre Nanterme
American men do have genuine reasons for anxiety. The traditional jobs that many men have filled are disappearing, thanks to automation and outsourcing. The jobs that remain require, in most cases, higher education, which is increasingly difficult for non-affluent families to afford. Martha Nussbaum
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
One would expect that a surge of new automation opportunities in highly paid work would catalyze a surge of corporate investment in computer hardware and software. Instead, the opposite occurred. David Autor
Look at trade and automation: two competing but slightly overlapping forces in the shrinking of the duration of jobs right now. We have to be able to talk honestly about how disrupted this world is going to be, and it is crazy to mislead people and say we’re going to bring back all of the big factory jobs by creating a protectionist regime. Ben Sasse
I wonder what would have happened if automation and computers had existed when ‘Oklahoma!’ was having its out-of-town try-out, and three days before closing in Boston, when it was still called ‘Away We Go,’ they added a new song called ‘Oklahoma!’ I don’t think that could happen today. It’s almost impossible to change musicals on the go now. Andrew Lloyd Webber
The way you deal with automation is by upgrading people’s skills so they can get the jobs of the future. John Delaney
Advances in automation, artificial intelligence and robotics, while increasing productivity, will also cause major upheavals to the workforce. John Hickenlooper
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
It is easy to underestimate in advance the impact of globalization and automation – I have done it myself. Moshe Vardi
The last 200 years, we’ve had an incredible amount of automation. We have tractors that do the work that horses and people used to do on farms. We don’t dig ditches by hand anymore. We don’t pound tools out of wrought iron. We don’t do bookkeeping with books! But this has not, in net, reduced the amount of employment. David Autor
I think the automation of vision is a much bigger deal than the invention of perspective. Trevor Paglen
A universal basic income funded by a value-added tax, which is a tax placed on a product whenever value is added at each stage of the supply chain, from production to the point of sale, would spread the benefits of automation to a much wider group of people. Andrew Yang
Automation is great for profits, but it’s a real potential trouble area for society. Chieh Huang
Warp speed developments in technology – automation, artificial intelligence, and the arrival of the sharing economy – are transforming how we work. Beyond technology, traditional working patterns are also being disrupted by changes in society, organizations and workforce management, leading to the rise of a more independent and dispersed workforce. Alain Dehaze
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
I see three forces militating in favor of growing inequality: increasing measurement of worker value added, automation through smart software, and globalization. Tyler Cowen
Automation is driving the decline of banal and repetitive tasks. Amber Rudd
I believe that rather than it being a case of humans versus machines, the future of financial advice more likely lies somewhere in between, where human advisors leverage artificial intelligence and automation to become smarter and more efficient at doing their jobs. Clara Shih