Computers Quote by Edward Abbey Download Open image “We spend more time working for our labor-saving machines than they do working for us.” — Edward Abbey ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Computers Labor Machines More time Saving Time
Our machines increasingly do our work for us. Why doesn't this make our labor redundant and our skills obsolete? Why are there still so… — David Autor Copy Share Image
“Labor-saving technology was supposed to give us more leisure time, but a greater percentage of our waking hours is spent in work or work-related… — Jack Finney Copy Share Image
In our million-mile-an-hour culture of never enough, working less is interpreted as working less well. This isn't always the case. — Rachel Simmons Copy Share Image
“You know the world has ended when manual labor in America is cheaper and easier than using machines.” — Susan Ee Copy Share Image
We have reached a point today where labor-saving devices are good only when they do not throw the worker out of his job. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I even believe in helping an employer function more productively. For then, we will have a claim to higher wages, shorter hours, and greater… — Sidney Hillman Copy Share Image
For a long time, the humans are going to be better than the machines and so different parts of the job will be leveraged.… — Erik Brynjolfsson Copy Share Image
Wherever we are, any time of night or day, our bosses, junk-mailers, our parents can get to us. Sociologists have actually found that in… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
Nearly all of us work, a lot: many people spend more waking hours working than doing all other things combined. And nearly all of… — Chris Pavone Copy Share Image
We're a machine and we have to be worked in the same way we have to be fed. — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
Nothing increases the number of jobs so rapidly as labor-saving machinery, because it releases wants theretofore unknown, by permitting leisure. — Isabel Paterson Copy Share Image
“There has not been a piece of technology designed to save labor that has not increased labor. Word processors allow you to do what… — Wayne Gladstone Copy Share Image
A man could be a lover and defender of the wilderness without ever in his lifetime leaving the boundaries of asphalt, powerlines, and right-angled… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Except for the scale of the operation, there was nothing unusual about Hitler's massacre of the Jews. Genocide's an old tradition, as human as… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
By the age of eighteen, a human has acquired enough joy and heartache to provide the food of reflection for a century. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“Our institutions are too big; they represent not the best but the worst characteristics of human beings. By submitting to huge hierarchies of power,… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
No man-made structure in all of American history has been hated so much, by so many, for so long, with such good reason, as… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Where all pretend to be thinking alike, it's likely that no one is thinking at all. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“But why, the questioner insists, why do people like you pretend to love uninhabited country so much? Why this cult of wilderness? Why the… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Civilization is a youth with a molotov cocktail in his hand. Culture is the Soviet tank or L.A. cop that guns him down. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
All revolutions have failed? Perhaps. But rebellion for good cause is self- justifying -- a good in itself. Rebellion transforms slaves into human beings,… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“Me, I'm living under a sword too, as Jack may have told you. An old wino's disease, which could lay me in the grave… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
I don't understand why we're all connected wirelessly via a little machine that goes in our pocket, to everybody in the world, and you… — Jon M. Chu Copy Share Image
“Probably it goes without saying, but time machine guys don't get a lot of action. Had a one night stand with something cute a… — Charles Yu Copy Share Image
The time that one gains cannot be accumulated in a storehouse; it is contradictory to want to save up existence, which, the fact is,… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Issac:"I dislike living in a world without Augustus Waters." Computer: "I don't understand-" Issac: "Me neither. Pause — John Green Copy Share Image
“Note found in the patron suggestion box: "You have SIGNS up near the computers that say BE QUIET, but people don't be quiet. They… — Gina Sheridan Copy Share Image
“You weren't born to be a cog in the giant industrial machine. You were trained to become a cog. There's an alternative available to… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
If you stood me in a costume next to a computer graphic of the same-looking character, I think there would be a difference. And… — Warwick Davis Copy Share Image
The corporate state is an immensely powerful machine, ordered, legalistic, rational, yet utterly out of human control, wholly and perfectly indifferent to any human… — Charles A. Reich Copy Share Image
The popular mind often pictures gigantic flying machines speeding across the Atlantic carrying innumerable passengers in a way analogous to our modern steam ships.… — William Henry Pickering Copy Share Image
“Alan Turing proposed the Turing Test: a computer is intelligent if you can't tell it from a human when you talk with it. No… — CJS Hayward Copy Share Image
Computers can be taught that certain tune or certain chords changes will sound pleasant together, but I don't think it's going to reach a… — Bonobo Copy Share Image
