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Workers are basically supervisors of machines.

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Workers are basically supervisors of machines.

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There was a great sag in employment beginning in 2000.

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Trade may raise GDP. But it does make some people worse off.

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Labor is getting a shrinking slice of a pie that's not growing very much.

David Autor

More than any other issue, economists have kind of been boosters for trade.

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We can set no limit to human potentialities; all that is best in man can be bettered; it is not a question of producing a highly efficient machine, ... but of quickening all the distinctly human features, all that is best in man, all the different qualities, some obvious, some infinitely subtle, which we recognize as humanly excellent.

Ronald Fisher Statistician

I've never loved spending time on the machines at the gym. But I have discovered an exercise regimen I can dedicate myself to: yoga. It's changed my body.

Judy Reyes Television Actress

Instruction tables will have to be made up by mathematicians with computing experience and perhaps a certain puzzle-solving ability. There need be no real danger of it ever becoming a drudge, for any processes that are quite mechanical may be turned over to the machine itself.

Alan Turing Mathematician

I want to be a machine.

Andy Warhol Artist

Who is more amateurish, more vulnerable---those who rely on machines that need to be plugged in, or logged on, or in some other way connected in order to be more than a useless slab of plastic ... or those who have learned to master life without?

Anne Fortier Writer

There is unquestionably a contradiction between an efficient technological machine and the flowering of human nature, of the human personality.

Arthur Miller Playwright

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