Mechanization best serves mediocrity.

Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

The overwhelming pressure of mechanization evident in the newspaper and the magazine, has led to the creation of vast monopolies of communication. Their entrenched…

— Harold Innis

“These wild things, I admit, had little human value until mechanization assured us of a good breakfast, and until science disclosed the drama of…

— Aldo Leopold

People have long feared that mechanization might cause mass unemployment. This never happened because, as old professions became obsolete, new professions evolved, and there…

— Yuval Noah Harari

If you ask an economist what's driven economic growth, it's been major advances in things that mattered - the mechanization of farming, mass manufacturing,…

— Larry Page

Jobs represent a relatively recent pattern of work. From the fifteenth century to the twentieth century, there is a steady progress of fragmentation of…

— Marshall McLuhan

The fatal hour of this ancient game is approaching. In its modern form this game will soon die a drawing death - the inevitable…

— Emanuel Lasker

Science without religion is dangerous because it necessarily entails a mechanization of humanity and consequent loss of individual autonomy and spirituality. On the other…

— Masao Abe

“When you took a man's job away from him, his ability to feed and clothe his family, that man was going to get angry.”

— Darrin Grimwood

I believe that the horrifying deterioration in the ethical conduct of people today stems from the mechanization and dehumanization of our lives. A disastrous…

— Albert Einstein

Intelligent machines will continue that mechanization process, taking over the more menial aspects of cognition and elevating our mental lives towards creativity, curiosity, beauty,…

— Garry Kasparov

Living in a time of the increasing struggle of the mechanization of man, photography has become another example of this paradoxical problem of how…

— Ernst Haas

Gramophone and movies were merely the mechanization of speech and gesture. But the radio and TV were not just the electronification of speech and…

— Marshall McLuhan

The artist is always searching for the meaning of life, his own and that of mankind, searching for truth. A system of uncertainty has…

— Bohuslav Martinu

In olden times when there was a war, it was a human-to-human confrontation. The victor in battle would directly see the blood and suffering…

— Dalai Lama