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Howard Scott
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“We owe nothing in our origins from Adam Smith, Ricardo, Pareto, Proudhon, Bakunin, Karl Marx, Lenin, or any of the rest of the political philosophies. We do owe a debt to J. Willard Gibbs, Nikola Tesla, Steinmetz, Mac and John Rusk, and a thousand other American chemists, engineers, scientists, and technologists.”
Howard Scott (1890–1970) first seen 1964 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Howard Scott interviewed at Radio station KYW, Cleveland Interview with Howard Scott, 19 November 1964. Transcript online at technocracyincorporated.org, 2006.
“A number of engineers became so-called disciples of Frederick W. Taylor, even though he had passed on to his reward in 1915. A considerable number of engineers took up the so-called scientific management of Frederick Taylor and further embroidered it and publicized themselves as efficiency engineers and management consultants. Henry L. Gantt had been Taylor's assistant at the Midvale Steel and the Bethlehem Steel Company. Gant, , Leffingwell, Emerson, H. K. Hathaway, , and were among the many prominent advocates of Taylor's efficiency system with some variations.”
Howard Scott (1890–1970) said by 1970 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We never had any use for Taylor or any of the efficiency or scientific management crowd. They never realized that human toil was the last thing in the world you had to be efficient about; the only way to be really efficient is to eliminate it entirely, and this would have been heresy to any of the Taylor, Gant, Barth, Cook efficiency crowd.”
Howard Scott (1890–1970) said by 1970 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The technological concepts of Technocracy are completely beyond any of the political and social philosophies, from Adam Smith, Ricardo, Proudhon, Bakunin, Karl Marx, Lenin and various other promulgators of rightist and leftist political philosophies.”
Howard Scott (1890–1970) said by 1970 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source