Quotes About Mechanization

#1. The industrial revolution that defined the first half of the 20 century marked the start of modern business, typified by high-volume, large-scale organizations. Mechanization created a culture of business derived from the capabilities and needs of the time.

Steven Sinofsky

#2. A lot of the critique of our growing mechanization was actually at its strongest, and arguably at its most perceptive, during the late '60s.

Alan Moore

#3. Nothing feeds the center of being so much as creative work. The curtain of mechanization has come down between the mind and the hand.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#4. Living in a time of the increasing struggle of the mechanization of man, photography has become another example of this paradoxical problem of how to humanize, how to overcome a machine on which we are thoroughly dependent ... the camera ...

Ernst Haas

#5. Even as the population doubled from three to six billion, we managed to race ahead with all kinds of technological and scientific events in agriculture - from using more fertilizers to mechanization to advanced plant breeding.

Nina Fedoroff

#6. Mechanization best serves mediocrity.

Frank Lloyd Wright

#7. If you ask an economist what's driven economic growth, it's been major advances in things that mattered - the mechanization of farming, mass manufacturing, things like that. The problem is, our society is not organized around doing that.

Larry Page

#8. In manufacturing, where mechanization and the use of chemical processes are much easier, it is easier to raise productivity than in services. In contrast, by their very nature, many service activities are inherently impervious to productivity increase without diluting the quality of the product.

Ha-Joon Chang

#9. It always demands a far greater degree of courage for an individual to oppose an organized movement than to let himself be carried along with the stream - individual courage, that is, a variety of courage that is dying out in these times of progressive organization and mechanization.

Stefan Zweig

#10. The fatal hour of this ancient game is approaching. In its modern form this game will soon die a drawing death - the inevitable victory of certainty and mechanization will leave its stamp on the fate of chess.

Emanuel Lasker

#11. Competition forces factory owners to mechanize production, so as to reduce labor costs, but while this is to the short-term advantage of the individual firm, the overall effect of such mechanization is actually to drive the overall rate of profit of all firms down.

David Graeber

#12. I believe that the horrifying deterioration in the ethical conduct of people today stems from the mechanization and dehumanization of our lives. A disastrous by-product of the development of the scientific and technical mentality. We are guilty. Man grows cold faster than the planet he inhabits.

Albert Einstein

#13. Our age of mechanization leads along a road ending with man himself as a machine. Only the spirit of singing can save us from this fate.

Zoltan Kodaly

#14. Professionalism is nothing but a crude insistance on the mechanization of mankind.

Kedar Joshi

#15. Besides black art, there is only automation and mechanization.

Federico Garcia Lorca

#16. The overwhelming pressure of mechanization evident in the newspaper and the magazine, has led to the creation of vast monopolies of communication. Their entrenched positions involve a continuous, systematic, ruthless destruction of elements of permanence essential to cultural activity.

Harold Innis

#17. Money, mechanization, algebra. The three monsters of contemporary civilization.

Simone Weil

#18. Well, father, in the shipwreck of life, for life is an eternal shipwreck of our hopes, I cast into the sea my useless encumbrance, that is all, and I remain with my own will, disposed to live perfectly alone, and, consequently, perfectly free. (Eugenie to her father)

Alexandre Dumas

#19. (Snarl sent me candy! Oh, how I might love him!)

Rachel Cohn

#20. Who can know the absolute truth of illusion or emptiness? That is why we feel the fulfilled sense of this world.

Sorin Cerin

#21. For I had felt too much and reasoned too little, hearing what I was ready to hear, not what had been said. There

Mary Renault

#22. When you took a man's job away from him, his ability to feed and clothe his family, that man was going to get angry.

Darrin Grimwood

#23. Do not lower your expectations in order to avoid hurt. Instead, keep your expectations high and learn to tackle with disappointments.

Dhaval Gajera

#24. it offends the continuum of human dignity to treat people like the appendage of highly efficient machines.

Simon Head

#25. It is hard
To be strong
When Someone Special
Leaves your life
And it does't
Get any easier
With practice

Javan