"When you automate an industry you modernize it;……" — Eric Hoffer
"When you automate an industry you modernize it; when you automate a life you primitivize it."
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462 Quotes by Eric Hoffer
Eric Hoffer has 462 quotes on this site.
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In a time of drastic change, it is the learners who inherit the future.
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Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.
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To dispose a soul to action we must upset its equilibrium.
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Naivete in grownups is often charming; but when coupled with vanity it is indistinguishable from stupidity.
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A ruling intelligentsia, whether in Europe, Asia or Africa, treats the masses as raw material to be experimented on, processed,…
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Help your sister's boat across the water, and yours too will reach the other side. Kindness can become its own…
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To wrong those we hate is to add fuel to our hatred. Conversely, to treat an enemy with magnanimity is…
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In running away from ourselves we either fall on our neighbor's shoulder or fly at his throat.
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Creativity is discontent translated into arts.
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The self-despisers are less intent on their own increase than on the diminution of others. Where self-esteem is unobtainable, envy…
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There are no chaste minds. Minds copulate wherever they meet.
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We are more ready to try the untried when what we do is inconsequential. Hence the remarkable fact that many…
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For Quality: Stamp out fires, automate, computerize, M.B.O., install merit pay, rank people, best efforts, zero defects. WRONG!!!! Missing ingredient:…
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If you say you want to automate cars and save people's lives, the skills you need for that aren't taught…
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I want to institutionalise and automate chequebook journalism.
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Well, jobs are a great thing. You have to be a bit careful: If you raise the minimum wage, you’re…
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Empathy is about standing in someone else's shoes, feeling with his or her heart, seeing with his or her eyes.…
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My generation's parents told their children, 'Become an accountant, a lawyer, or an engineer; that will give you a solid…
— Daniel H. Pink
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A lot of white-collar work requires less of the routine, rule-based, what we might call algorithmic set of capabilities, and…
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The selection of MediLab came after an extensive evaluation process. The laboratory in Zambia presented many challenges such as rapidly…
— Craig Wilson
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There are certain things I will automate, but when it comes to quality control, I want to keep a very…
— Tim Ferriss
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Instead of forcing yourself to do something you dont like, try to trick yourself, and automate as much of the…
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