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Henry Ford on AI

2 quotes from Henry Ford on the wall, 1922, newest first. Each one is verbatim and links to where it was said. Sources include Doubleday, Page & Company.

  1. A world composed of metal machines and human machines

    Industrialist Henry Ford, head of Ford Motor Company, describing a common fear about mass production that he goes on to reject, in the introduction of his 1922 memoir written with Samuel Crowther.

    Doubleday, Page & CompanyMy Life and Work

  2. Machines are to a mechanic what books are to a writer

    Henry Ford recalling his boyhood tinkering with watches and machinery and his apprenticeship in a Detroit machine shop, in his 1922 memoir My Life and Work.

    Doubleday, Page & CompanyMy Life and Work

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