Age Quote by Hugh Herr

I want the humans to be able to hold their own against the strength of the machines.

— John Landgraf

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

The more we reduce ourselves to machines in the lower things, the more force we shall set free to use in the higher.

— Anonymous

“The technologically-aided destruction of old, mechanical professions drives us to higher-functioning tasks that tap more fully into what makes us human.”

— Winston Damarillo

As a society I think we are going to be much better off by having machines that can work in conjunction with humans to…

— Jeff Dean

Without risk in our lives, we're scarcely better than machines ourselves.

— Alastair Reynolds

The humans have a curious force they call ambition. It drives them, and, through them, it drives us. This force which keeps them active,…

— John Wyndham

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

— Douglas Rushkoff

Humans have only so many 'irreplaceable' skills, and the idea that we'll just keep outrunning the machines, skill-wise, is a folly.

— Zeynep Tufekci

As machines get to be more and more like men, men will come to be more like machines.

— Joseph Wood Krutch

There are many machines throughout history that were built to do something better than a human can.

— Mark Zuckerberg

If we are machines, then in principle at least, we should be able to build machines out of other stuff, which are just as…

— Rodney Brooks