Television is simply automated daydreaming.

I wouldn't be interested in [nowadays] television simply because I think it goes too fast. Except if something was maybe a play on television…

— Al Pacino

I'm not saying I want a film career because I think I'm too good for television. I'm simply saying I want more control over…

— Matthew Fox

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…

— Ben Horowitz

“Paradox of Automation: the more efficient the Automated system, the more crucial the contribution of the human operators of that system.”

— Josh Kaufman

“The second point is that the lives we lead are much more automated than we imagine—or like to concede—and that this is not always…

— David DiSalvo

“To have humans executing tests that should be automated is a waste of human potential.”

— Gene Kim

“we just don't have the time to go chasing after bugs that the automated tests could have found for us. We have to spend…

— Andrew Hunt

“In highly automated systems, the operator is often at the mercy of the system design and operational procedures.”

— Nancy G. Leveson

“The more automated our experience becomes, the less involved we are in the art of living.”

— Michael L. Brown

The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom.

— C. Northcote Parkinson

“Never automate something that can be eliminated, and never delegate something that can be automated or streamlined. Otherwise, you waste someone else's time instead…

— Timothy Ferriss

So you will see us continue to advance the state of the art or take information that we have in our response data bases…

— John W. Thompson

“This includes the creation of automated build, integration, and test processes so that we can immediately detect when a change has been introduced that…

— Gene Kim

In the increasingly mechanized, automated, cybernated environment of the modern world a cold, bodiless world of wheels, smooth plastic surfaces, tubes, pushbuttons, transistors, computers,…

— Eldridge Cleaver

As a programmer, it is your job to put yourself out of business. What you do today can be automated tomorrow.

— Douglas McIlroy