“The old general rule was that educated people did not perform manual labor. They managed to eat their bread, leaving the toil of producing it to the uneducated. This was not an insupportable evil to the working bees, so long as the class of drones remained very small. But now, especially in these fr…”— Abraham Lincoln, abrahamlincolnonline.org
“Well, all those mechanics do is work all day with their hands and their big, muscular arms on machines, and then they come home dripping with animal sexuality like Stanley Kowalski. What a huge turnoff that is.”— Marjorie Gross, Elaine Benes, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, imdb.com
“The satisfaction of manifesting oneself concretely in the world through manual competence has been known to make a man quiet and easy. It seems to relieve him of the felt need to offer chattering interpretations of himself to vindicate his worth. He simply points: the building stands, the car now ru…”— Matthew B. Crawford, amazon.com
“As middle-skilled roles disappear, workers may find that the 'rung' above them no longer exists, and that the career ladder may begin to look more like a career web.”— Lynda Gratton, mirror.co.uk
“Robots are going to cause a job loss across this country like you’re not going to believe.”— Ed Rensi, mirror.co.uk