Larry Wall Quotes

If technology can remove some of the labour-intensive tasks where the computer can do better than the human eye; that helps.

There's a lot of automation that can happen that isn't a replacement of humans but of mind-numbing behavior.

Never send a human to do a machine's job.

The basis of computer work is predicated on the idea that only the brain makes decisions and only the index finger does the work.

I want to push technology boundaries to be more efficient.

A lot of times I make people better by getting stupid, distracting, bureaucratic stuff off their desk. That's an incredibly easy way to make a senior person more productive.

When a machine can do something better and faster than a person can, I am happy to let the machine do it.

Robots are good at things that are structured.

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

I never do any brainwork that anyone else can do for me

As a tech optimist, I believe productivity woes can be solved through cleverly imagined and implemented technology.

I'm still an engineer at heart. So if I can automate conversations that I find myself keep having to have, it seems like a good opportunity for me.

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

Computers can do better than ever what needn't be done at all. Making sense is still a human monopoly.

I am rarely happier than when spending entire day programming my computer to perform automatically a task that it would otherwise take me a good ten seconds to do by hand.

Machines already are much smarter than us at so many things. I mean, try to multiply two 10-digit numbers with each other or, you know, sift through a thousand documents. So there's lots of things that machines are better at including in mental task than us. There's many more that they're not as good at, but the direction is pretty obvious and the progress is clear.

To be sure, technology will change what we do. Tasks that are highly manual, routine, and predictable will be automated. But jobs are made up of many tasks. So the nature of existing jobs will change, and new careers will be created.

Technology has made it a lot easier to be productive. It's incredibly helpful to be able to get little bits of information quickly.

I wanted to automate any part of my life that I could. And the over-the-top solutions are more fun than the useful ones.

I'm always trying to think of ways to make something more efficient. If I have to do something once, that's fine. If I have to do it twice, I'm kind of annoyed. And if I have to do it three times, I'm going to try to automate it.

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

Automation is driving the decline of banal and repetitive tasks.

I really love to work like a machine.

Advanced technology changes the way we work and the skills we need, but it also boosts productivity and creates new jobs.

A computer can have so much more in its brain that a human can.