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A closed plant is like a cemetery; it really is. The walls will talk to you; the machines will talk to you if you really talk to them. ”
When we assess the impact of technological changes, we tend to downplay things that happened a while ago. ”
It's really just my Hammurabi code of journalism ethics, that I don't want to ask someone to do something that I won't do myself. ”
Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly. ”
What we can say with confidence is that the technological revolution is worsening inequality, due mostly to mechanisms that limit free markets. It is also bringing about disruptive change that is intensifying insecurity and may indeed lead to large-scale labor displacement. ”
Globalisation, technological change, and the move to flexible labour markets has channelled more and more income to rentiers - those owning financial, physical, or so-called intellectual property - while real wages stagnate. ”
It's easy to say that entrepreneurs will create jobs and big companies will create unemployment, but this is simplistic. The real question is who will innovate. ”
I think it's a very important collaboration between the conductor and the orchestra - especially when the conductor is one more member of the orchestra in the way that you are leading, but also respecting, feeling and building the same way for all the players to understand the music. ”
When man wanted to make a machine that would walk he created the wheel, which does not resemble a leg. ”
I was in a form of a prison: not necessarily with bars, but I was locked to that machine three days a week, and I couldn't plan work, I couldn't plan vacations, I couldn't plan dinner, I couldn't plan homework, I couldn't plan nothing because at the end of the day, Monday, Wednesday and Friday, I had to be at dialysis. ”