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We must do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living. It is a fact today that one in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest. The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a living. We keep inventing jobs because of this false idea that everybody has to be employed at some kind of drudgery because, according to Malthusian-Darwinian theory, he must justify his right to exist. So we have inspectors of inspectors & people making instruments for inspectors to inspect inspectors. The true business of people should be to go back to school & think about whatever it was they were thinking about before somebody came along & told them they had to earn a living.” – Buckminster Fuller	added by anonymous 8 years ago
A large part of your brain is shackled by the boredom and drudgery of everyday existence, you have to drive a car, vacuum the floor or take the garbage out. But imagine if technology could come along and take care of all these mundane chores for you, and allow you to indulge in the forms of creative expression that only the human brain can indulge in. What a beautiful world we would be able to create around us. – Chetan Dube	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
There’s a lot of talk about technology taking over the drudgery work and allowing people to focus on more creative, more value-added work, but there’s also the potential to replace a lot of human functions, what’s happening isn’t that you eliminate a 50-person department. – Alex Kozlov	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
The acquisition of Panaya is a key step in renewing and differentiating our service lines, this will help amplify the potential of our people, freeing us from the drudgery of many repetitive tasks, so we may focus more on the important, strategic challenges faced by our clients. – Vishal Sikka	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
This will help amplify the potential of our people, freeing us from the drudgery of many repetitive tasks, so we may focus more on the important, strategic challenges faced by our clients. – Vishal Sikka	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
The every-day cares and duties which men call drudgery are the weights and counterpoises of the clock of Time, giving its pendulum a true vibration, and its hands a regular motion; and when they cease to hang upon the wheels, the pendulum no longer sways, the hands no longer move, the clock stands still. – Longfellow	added by anonymous 12 years ago
A man of quick and active wit For drudgery is more unfit, Compared to those of duller parts, Than running nags are to draw carts. – Butler	added by anonymous 12 years ago
The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves. – Logan Pearsall Smith	added by anonymous 14 years ago
No man will ever bring out of the Presidency the reputation which carries him into it...To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends. – Thomas Jefferson	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Vision without a task is only a dream. A task without a vision is but drudgery. But vision with a task is a dream fulfilled. – Willie Stone	added by anonymous 14 years ago

We must do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living. It is a fact today that one in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest. The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a living. We keep inventing jobs because of this false idea that everybody has to be employed at some kind of drudgery because, according to Malthusian-Darwinian theory, he must justify his right to exist. So we have inspectors of inspectors & people making instruments for inspectors to inspect inspectors. The true business of people should be to go back to school & think about whatever it was they were thinking about before somebody came along & told them they had to earn a living.”

– Buckminster Fuller

added by anonymous
8 years ago

A large part of your brain is shackled by the boredom and drudgery of everyday existence, you have to drive a car, vacuum the floor or take the garbage out. But imagine if technology could come along and take care of all these mundane chores for you, and allow you to indulge in the forms of creative expression that only the human brain can indulge in. What a beautiful world we would be able to create around us.

– Chetan Dube

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

There’s a lot of talk about technology taking over the drudgery work and allowing people to focus on more creative, more value-added work, but there’s also the potential to replace a lot of human functions, what’s happening isn’t that you eliminate a 50-person department.

– Alex Kozlov

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

The acquisition of Panaya is a key step in renewing and differentiating our service lines, this will help amplify the potential of our people, freeing us from the drudgery of many repetitive tasks, so we may focus more on the important, strategic challenges faced by our clients.

– Vishal Sikka

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

This will help amplify the potential of our people, freeing us from the drudgery of many repetitive tasks, so we may focus more on the important, strategic challenges faced by our clients.

– Vishal Sikka

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

The every-day cares and duties which men call drudgery are the weights and counterpoises of the clock of Time, giving its pendulum a true vibration, and its hands a regular motion; and when they cease to hang upon the wheels, the pendulum no longer sways, the hands no longer move, the clock stands still.

– Longfellow

added by anonymous
12 years ago

A man of quick and active wit For drudgery is more unfit, Compared to those of duller parts, Than running nags are to draw carts.

– Butler

added by anonymous
12 years ago

The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves.

– Logan Pearsall Smith

added by anonymous
14 years ago

No man will ever bring out of the Presidency the reputation which carries him into it...To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends.

– Thomas Jefferson

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Vision without a task is only a dream. A task without a vision is but drudgery. But vision with a task is a dream fulfilled.

– Willie Stone

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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