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Quotes about Automation

4 quotes about automation, from Alfred North Whitehead, Bill Gates, Marshall McLuhan and others.

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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
I no longer file expense reports, so I no longer experience the pain of it. What if everyone had a virtual assistant to do that kind of effort... like approving time off or submitting time-off requests? We want to really encourage developers to create cool things for Slack.
Stewart Butterfield
Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them.
Alfred North Whitehead
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 quoted on automation

  • Alfred North Whitehead1
  • Bill Gates1
  • Marshall McLuhan1
  • Stewart Butterfield1

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