Computers Quote by Charles Babbage

Many of the technologies that are now racing ahead most rapidly, replacing human workers in factories and offices with machines, making stockholders richer and…

— Freeman Dyson

The machines need to get faster. They need to get cheaper.

— Bill Gates

That the powers of labour, and of the other instruments which produce wealth, may be indefinitely increased by using their products as the means…

— Nassau William Senior

The more the division of labor and the application of machinery extend, the more does competition extend among the workers, the more do their…

— Karl Marx

Because of the increased efficiency of machines, it is getting harder and harder for a human to make a productive contribution to society.

— Sebastian Thrun

Machines are beneficial to the degree that they eliminate the need for labor, harmful to the degree that they eliminate the need for skill.

— W. H. Auden

In most industries, technological change is happening at a rapid rate.

— Ken Moelis

“We are looking at a society increasingly dependent on machines, yet decreasingly capable of making or even using them effectively.”

— Douglas Rushkoff

If you don't understand how to run an efficient operation, new machinery will just give you new problems of operation and maintenance. The sure…

— W. Edwards Deming

In proportion as the machine is improved and performs man's work with an ever increasing rapidity and exactness, the labourer, instead of prolonging his…

— Paul Lafargue

This great increase of the quantity of work which, in consequence of the division of labour, the same number of people are capable of…

— Adam Smith

But a rise in the wages of labour would not equally affect commodities produced with machinery quickly consumed, and commodities produced with machinery slowly…

— David Ricardo