Computers Quote by Vitalik Buterin

People talk about "job creation," as if that had ever been the aim the industrial economy. The aim was to replace people with machines.

— Wendell Berry

Generations of human beings were transformed into machines in the relentless pursuit of material wealth: We lived to work.

— Jeremy Rifkin

But the broader lesson of the first Industrial Revolution is more like the Indy 500 than John Henry: economic progress comes from constant innovation…

— Erik Brynjolfsson

“The second industrial revolution doesn’t present us, as the first did, with overwhelming images of rolling mills or molten steel, but rather with bits…

— Italo Calvino

We're living through the second Industrial Revolution.

— John T. Chambers

Industrialization based on machinery, already referred to as a characteristic of our age, is but one aspect of the revolution that is being wrought…

— Emily Greene Balch

When the industrial revolution happened there was the Luddistic movement, and there was a fear that machinery would replace all the labor. Whenever we…

— Branko Milanovic

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

— Mark Zuckerberg

“The first industrial revolution is flawed. It is not working. It is unsustainable. It is a mistake and we must move on to another…

— Wayne Visser

“From the moment when the machine first made its appearance it was clear to all thinking people that the need for human drudgery, and…

— George Orwell

The aim of industrialization has always been to replace people with machines or other technology, to make the cost of production as low as…

— Wendell Berry

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

— Peter Senge