Able Quote by Marshall McLuhan

It is easy to make a simple machine which will run toward the light or run away from it, and if such machines also…

— Norbert Wiener

I think one of the most interesting things about automation isn't on the practical side. I think it's about creating magic and wonder and…

— Genevieve Bell

“I have noticed that when all the lights are on, people tend to talk about what they are doing – their outer lives. Sitting…

— Jeanette Winterson

There's a lot of automation that can happen that isn't a replacement of humans but of mind-numbing behavior.

— Stewart Butterfield

Skilled workers historically have been ambivalent toward automation, knowing that the bodies it would augment or replace were theoccasion for both their pain and…

— Shoshana Zuboff

As technology advances, it reverses the characteristics of every situation again and again. The age of automation is going to be the age of…

— Marshall McLuhan

“Paradox of Automation: the more efficient the Automated system, the more crucial the contribution of the human operators of that system.”

— Josh Kaufman

We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can. . . . The more of the…

— William James

Invention is activity of mind, as fire is air in motion; a sharpening of the spiritual sight, to discern hidden aptitudes.

— Martin Farquhar Tupper

Automation is driving the decline of banal and repetitive tasks.

— Amber Rudd

In many cases, jobs that used to be done by people are going to be able to be done through automation. I don't have…

— John Sculley

Automation and technology don't cure behavioral ruts: they just create new instances of them.

— Kenneth Goldsmith