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I think I should not go far wrong if I asserted that the amount of genuine leisure available in a society is generally in inverse proportion to the amount of labor-saving machinery it employs.
E. F. Schumacher

Good Work (1985, pg. 25).

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All of the biggest technological inventions created by man – the airplane, the automobile, the computer – says little about his intelligence, but speaks volumes about his laziness.

Mark Kennedy

— As cited in: Stuart Kantor (2004) Beer, Boxers, Batteries, And Bodily Noises. p. 39

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The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment.

Warren Bennis

— Warren G. Bennis; As cited in: Mark Fisher (1991) The millionaire's book of quotations. p. 151

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Do you realize if it weren't for Edison we'd be watching TV by candlelight?

Al Boliska

— As cited in: Stuart Kantor, Beer, Boxers, Batteries, And Bodily Noises (2004, p. 39)

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When a machine begins to run without human aid, it is time to scrap it – whether it be a factory or a government.

Alexander Chase

— Perspectives (1966). Cited in: Anna Hart (1988) Expert systems: an introduction for managers. p. 111

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It is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.

T. S. Eliot

— About radio; Cited in: Robert Andrews (1987) The Routledge dictionary of quotations. p. 262

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The greatest task before civilization at present is to make machines what they ought to be, the slaves, instead of the masters of men.

Havelock Ellis

— Morals, manners, and men, (1948, pg. 41)

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Education makes machines which act like men and produces men who act like machines.

Erich Fromm

— As cited in: Noah benShea (2001) Great Quotes to Inspire Great Teachers. p. 23

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We are becoming the servants in thought, as in action, of the machine we have created to serve us.

john kenneth galbraith

— The new industrial state (2007, pg. 9)

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Once upon a time we were just plain people. But that was before we began having relationships with mechanical systems. Get involved with a machine and sooner or later you are reduced to a factor.

Ellen Goodman

— "The Human Factor," The Washington Post, January 1987.

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It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being.

john stuart mill

— As cited in: Colin Renfrew (1972) The Emergence of Civilisation. p.499

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The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.

antoine de saint exupéry

— Wind, Sand, and Stars (1939)

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The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.


— B.F. Skinner, Contingencies of Reinforcement, 1969

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One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

elbert hubbard

— A Thousand and One Epigrams (1911).

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