Felix Dennis Quotes

It's miraculous how much easier the computer has made my sort of work.

Few companies that installed computers to reduce the employment of clerks have realized their expectations... They now need more, and more expensive clerks even though they call them 'operators' or 'programmers.'

For the blue-collar worker, the driving force behind change was factory automation using programmable machine tools. For the office worker, it's office automation using computer technology: enterprise-resource-planning systems, groupware, intranets, extranets, expert systems, the Web, and e-commerce.

If you want to make computers that really work, create a design team composed only of healthy, active women with lots else to do in their lives, and give them carte blanche.

Computers get better faster than anything else ever.

The benefits of having robots could vastly outweigh the problems.

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

I actually use a computer a lot. I have three computers that I use on a regular basis - one is on my desk top in my Washington office, another is at home, and I have my laptop that I use when I'm travelling.

Every new computer program is basically doing some task that a person used to do. But the computer usually does it faster, more accurately, for less money, and without any health insurance costs.

At each increase of knowledge, as well as on the contrivance of every new tool, human labour becomes abridged.

Computers may save time but they sure waste a lot of paper. About 98 percent of everything printed out by a computer is garbage that no one ever reads.

Then after that came word processors and it's hard to make those laugh.

Musicians and journalists are the canaries in the coalmine, but, eventually, as computers get more and more powerful, it will kill off all middle-class professions.

There are three types of innovations that affect jobs and capital: empowering innovations, sustaining innovations and efficiency innovations.

If people really liked to work, we'd still be plowing the land with sticks and transporting goods on our backs.

Desktop computers - boxes inside boxes - began appearing in those cubicles in the mid-eighties, electrical cords curling on the floor like so many ropes.

Search folks don't understand editorial. I'm not afraid of editorial costs, just like machine-search folks are not afraid of computer servers.

Google is working on self-driving cars, and they seem to work. People are so bad at driving cars that computers don't have to be that good to be much better. Any time you stand in line at the DMV and look around, you're like, 'Oh, my God, I wish all these people were replaced by computer drivers.'

I yield to no one in my admiration for the office as a social center, but it's no place actually to get any work done.

In my last year at Hallmark, we finally began putting verses on computer. It had been all in filing cabinets on index cards. They had to assign a 4 digit serial number to each sentiment, for each area of feeling.

The most important consideration I have is I want my legislative shop to have a functional office suite that is conducive to getting their work accomplished.

A new era of production has begun. It's principles of organization are as different from those of the industrial era as those of the industrial era were different from the agricultural. The cybernation revolution has been brought about by the combination of the computer and the self-regulating machine. This results in a system of almost unlimited capacity which requires progressively less human labor. Cybernation is already reorganizing the economic and social system to meet its own needs .... As machines take over production from men, they absorb an increasing proportion of resources while men who are displaced become dependent on minimal and unrelated [to their work] governmental measures—unemployment insurance, social security, welfare payments.

Such a machine has the advantage that it will not make mistakes because it is tired or does not feel well, or because the weather is warm.

The story of automation is the story of a one-way shift from human control to automatic control.

The great question, however, for the poor man is, or shortly will be, that of escape from competition with labor-saving machinery