Better Quote by W. Edwards Deming

Machines Need to be Productive. People Need to be Effective.

— James William Benson

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

In manufacturing, where mechanization and the use of chemical processes are much easier, it is easier to raise productivity than in services. In contrast,…

— Ha-Joon Chang

Efficiency is doing better what is already being done.

— Peter Drucker

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

“It also seems like common sense that good production management involves keeping every employee busy and every machine fully utilized, to justify the capital…

— James P. Womack

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

— Bill Gates

Automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.

— Bill Gates

We will reinvent productivity to empower every person and every organization on the planet to do more and achieve more.

— Satya Nadella

It has been estimated that even in the absence of net investment, the mere substitution of modern machinery for worn-out equipment in the United…

— Paul A. Baran

We are operating at an overall mechanical efficiency of only four percent... Therefore, we find that if we increase the overall mechanical efficiency to…

— R. Buckminster Fuller

50 years from now we won't need as much human labour to do what manual workers do, so we should be able to take…

— Bill Gates