Computers Quote by Edward Abbey

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

“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

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

“You know the world has ended when manual labor in America is cheaper and easier than using machines.”

— Susan Ee

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

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

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

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

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

We're a machine and we have to be worked in the same way we have to be fed.

— Twyla Tharp

Nothing increases the number of jobs so rapidly as labor-saving machinery, because it releases wants theretofore unknown, by permitting leisure.

— Isabel Paterson

“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