Kevin Mitnick Quotes

Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done.

Industrialization based on machinery, already referred to as a characteristic of our age, is but one aspect of the revolution that is being wrought by technology.

In the future, I'm sure there will be a lot more robots in every aspect of life. If you told people in 1985 that in 25 years they would have computers in their kitchen, it would have made no sense to them.

Computers get better faster than anything else ever.

I hate the fact that so much of our life is computerised rather than mechanised.

The pace of digitizing life has been increasing exponentially.

Technology is the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it.

I just want the future to happen faster. I can't imagine the future without robots.

Systems are going to get a lot more sophisticated.

Computers do the calculating to allow people to transform the world.

It was a case of the technology catching up with the problem.

The thing which has made Labor great & powerful is labor-saving machinery--& nothing else in the world could have done it. It has been labor's savior, benefactor; but Labor doesn't know it, & would ignorantly crucify it. But that is human & natural.

We've got technological wonders around us, and we've used them to abrogate all responsibility for everything in our lives.

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.

Once computers can program, they basically take over technological progress because already, today, the majority of technological progress is run by software, by programming.

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

I think about the Internet and cell phones and jets and spaceships, and I wonder, 'What's going to make that look ancient?'

Any job that can be done by an illiterate can be done by a machine.

You can't stop globalization any more than you can stop computers.

The history of economic growth is the history of people making more with less and shifting into new jobs that were unheard of in the previous generation.

The computer of today is really in its infancy.

It’s important to embrace new technologies instead of fight them.

The world of A.D. 2014 will have few routine jobs that cannot be done better by some machine than by any human being. Mankind will therefore have become largely a race of machine tenders.

Technology has the ability to intervene when humans fail.

The Machine is the new Messiah. Machinery is accomplishing in the world what man has failed to do by preaching, propaganda, or the written word.