Claire Cain Miller Quotes

Engineering or technology is all about using the power of science to make life better for people, to reduce cost, to improve comfort, to improve productivity, etc.

That's what technology does to you - makes you lazy but allows you to innovate.

Improved productivity means less human sweat, not more.

Technology is a resource-liberating force!

The human species is often amazingly inventive and industrious but at the same time profoundly lazy. It's very clear that we humans don't like to work. This aversion to work is so extreme - and our ingenuity so acute - that we're eager to devote countless hours designing and building devices that might shave a few minutes off our workday

Good, bad or indifferent, if you are not investing in new technology, you are going to be left behind.

Let the machine take care of the machines, and I'll go spend more time with my family, or golf.

What new technology does is create new opportunities to do a job that customers want done.

I want to push technology boundaries to be more efficient.

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

The technological revolution at home makes it much easier for computers to do our work.

Every business has to figure out how to make itself more efficient. They've got to use technology. They've got to use the Internet, things like that. We can do the same thing with our state colleges.

My philosophy is that the digital revolution will make mankind happier and more productive, and that won't change over the next 300 years. If you don't stick to that original philosophy, even perfect control of a bunch of companies isn't going to do you any good.

I believe technology serves us best when it gives us more time to do things that are uniquely human. This includes activities that are enjoyable, creative, and productive.

Increasingly, the work we do is enabled more and more by new IT, including automation, robotics, and intelligent platforms.

We adapt to technological progress by raising our minimum standards of living and working to stay above this rising threshold.

Pretty much all of my inventions come about the same way. I have an everyday problem or something that I'm too lazy to do, so I make a machine that does it for me.

Computing is no more about work - it's all about making work happen with computers.

Technology is probably the single biggest driver of productivity gains for the developed countries. For example, I think it's much more important than free trade.

It is unworthy of excellent men to lose hours like slaves in the labor of calculation which could be relegated to anyone else if machines were used.

Progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things.

Technological change is both familiar and easy to observe.

The number one benefit of information technology is that it empowers people to do what they want to do. It lets people be creative. It lets people be productive. It lets people learn things they didn't think they could learn before, and so in a sense it is all about potential.

Mobile is the perfect example of what is enabling economic growth in the technology sector.

I'm known for being very enthusiastic about using technology. A lot of the attraction is the way that it streamlines the process and takes a lot of the drudgery out of it.