Allowing Quote by George W. Bush

“The big change has been in the hardware/software cost ratio. The buyer of a $2-million machine in 1960 felt that he could afford $250,000…

— Frederick P. Brooks Jr

“To what extent the machine abases us. - The machine is impersonal, it deprives the piece of work of its pride, of the individual…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

In the Machine Age, the company itself became a machine - a machine for making money.

— Peter Senge

If a product costs $10,000 or $20,000 it has limited use. This is what the first computers cost! Only when almost everyone is able…

— Mark Zuckerberg

By fashion and built-in obsolescence the economies of machine production, instead of producing leisure and durable wealth, are duly cancelled out by the mandatory…

— Lewis Mumford

When you write a piece of software you assume a certain type of hardware. If you assume hardware that's too powerful then you can't…

— Bill Gates

Failure of management to plan for the future and to foresee problems has brought about waste of manpower, of materials, of the machine-time, of…

— W. Edwards Deming

The machine is impersonal, it takes the pride away from a piece of work, the individual merits and defects that go along with allwork…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“We would not accept a situation in which every home and business had to operate its own power plant, library, printing press and water…

— Scientific American

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

— Bill Gates

I think business needs to have a heart and to have a heart a company must be more than just a moneymaking machine.

— Richard Branson

What makes the production of my work so expensive? The whole installation thing - the construction, the objects, the technology. It really adds up.

— Barbara Kruger