Automation Quotes by Top Minds.

Great collection of automation quotes. With artificial intelligence more and more tasks that once thought only humans could do, computers will be able to do.

“Automation is cost cutting by tightening the corners and not cutting them.” ~Haresh Sippy

“From income inequality to climate change, technology will play a critical role in finding solutions to many of the challenges our world faces today. This year’s emerging technologies demonstrate the rapid pace of human innovation and offer a glimpse into what a sustainable, inclusive future will look like.” ~Jeremy Jurgens

“Everything can be improved.” ~Clarence W. Barron

“Before you say you can’t do something…TRY IT.” ~Sakichi Toyoda

“The more we reduce ourselves to machines in the lower things, the more force we shall set free to use in the higher.” ~Anna Brackett

“Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design, manufacturing, layout, processes, and procedures.” ~Tom Peters

“Today, manufacturing is changing faster than ever before and the drivers for this include globalization, individualization, time to market and sustainability” ~Brian Holliday

“Automation does not need to be our enemy. I think machines can make life easier for men, if men do not let the machines dominate them.” ~John F. Kennedy

“As technology advances, it reverses the characteristics of every situation again and again. The age of automation is going to be the age of ‘do it yourself.'” ~Marshall McLuhan

“On the societal front, a paradigm shift is underway in how we work and communicate, as well as how we express, inform and entertain ourselves.” ~Klaus Schwab

“Automation and technology don’t cure behavioral ruts: they just create new instances of them.” ~Kenneth Goldsmith

“If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.” ~Omar Bradley

“As machines become more and more efficient and perfect, so it will become clear that imperfection is the greatness of man.” ~Ernst Fischer

“The human spirit must prevail over technology.” ~Albert Einstein

“Technologies that are emerging today will soon be shaping the world tomorrow and well into the future – with impacts to economies and to society at large. Now that we are well into the Fourth Industrial Revolution, it’s critical that we discuss and ensure that humanity is served by these new innovations so that we can continue to prosper.” ~Mariette DiChristina

“If you define the problem correctly, you almost have the solution.” ~Steve Jobs

“Any skilled engineer can take control remotely of any connected ‘thing’. Society has not yet realized the incredible scenarios this capability creates.” ~André Kudelski

“As a technologist, I see the trends, and I see that automation inevitably is going to mean fewer and fewer jobs. And if we do not find a way to provide a basic income for people who have no work, or no meaningful work, we’re going to have social unrest that could get people killed. When we have increasing production – year after year after year – some of that needs to be reinvested in society.” ~Edward Snowden

“The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.” ~Bill Gates

“Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.” ~Henry Ford

“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 an answer to that. That’s one of the more perplexing problems of society.” ~John Sculley

More Automation Quotes.

“All we are doing is looking at the timeline from the moment a customer gives us an order to the point we collect the cash. And we are reducing that timeline in the value stream by removing non value-added wastes.” ~Taiichi Ohno

“It is the fusion of these technologies and their interaction across the physical, digital and biological domains that make the fourth industrial revolution fundamentally different from previous revolutions.” ~Klaus Schwab

“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

“The Fourth Industrial Revolution is still in its nascent state. But with the swift pace of change and disruption to business and society, the time to join in is now.” ~Gary Coleman

“Automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.” ~Bill Gates

“We may not have known it was called Industry 4.0, but we’ve been doing it for years.” ~Heinz Jörg Fuhrmann

“Technology made large populations possible; large populations now make technology indispensable.” ~Joseph Krutch

“The message of the Kaizen strategy is that not a day should go by without some kind of improvement being made somewhere in the company.” ~Masaaki Imai

“Marketing automation is the technology that propels your business into a new era of relationship based marketing with quantifiable results. When powerful technology meets effective implementation and internal process management, your company will soon find itself on a journey that leads to new heights of business success.” ~Jon Miller

“Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.” ~Antoine de Saint Exupery

“We must develop a comprehensive and globally shared view of how technology is affecting our lives and reshaping our economic, social, cultural, and human environments. There has never been a time of greater promise, or greater peril.” ~Klaus Schwab

“Don’t say it can not be done, rather say, you don’t know how to do it yet.” ~Tomas Bata

“We must deal quickly with the fusion of the online world and the world of industrial production. In Germany, we call it Industrie 4.0.” ~Angela Merkel

“In many instances, automation in itself facilitates more diversification opportunities, in freeing up production capacity and enabling shorter run, more targeted copies, and it can also be essential in the interface with additional and new processes such as web drying, inkjetting etc.” ~Eric Bell

“You’re either the one that creates the automation or you’re getting automated.” ~Tom Preston-Werner

Automation is the Future of Work.

“If you can’t describe what you are doing as a process, you don’t know what you’re doing.” ~W. Edwards Deming

“Automation and technology would be a great boon if it were creative if there were more leisure more opportunity to engage in raising a family providing guidance to the young all the stuff we say we need. America will work if we’re all in it together. It’ll work when there’s a shared sense of destiny. It can be done!” ~Jerry Brown

“Industry 4.0 is more than just a flashy catchphrase. A confluence of trends and technologies promises to reshape the way things are made.” ~Cornelius Baur and Dominik Wee

“One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.” ~Elbert Hubbard

“Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction and skillful execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives.” ~William A Foster

“For people with a disability, the Fourth Industrial Revolution will give us super powers.” ~Birgit Skarstein

“And a revolution of automation finds machines replacing men in the mines and mills of America, without replacing their incomes or their training or their needs to pay the family doctor, grocer and landlord.” ~John F. Kennedy