Tools Quotes

Science is not ... a perfect instrument, but it is a superb and invaluable tool that works harm only when taken as an end in itself.

A book calls for pen, ink, and a writing desk; today the rule is that pen, ink, and a writing desk call for a book.

I've never considered musical equipment very sacred.

A lawyer without books would be like a workman without tools.

Our writing equipment takes part in forming our thoughts.

Solutions to all biological problems are greatly advanced by the sequencing work and the new tools that are created.

You must accept that if the computer is a tool, it is the job of tool user to know what to use it for.

I ain't never far away from a pencil and paper or a tape recorder.

Man is a tool-making animal

A computer is the most incredible tool we've ever seen. It can be a writing tool, a communications center, a supercalculator, a planner, a filer and an artistic instrument all in one, just by being given new instructions, or software, to work from. There are no other tools that have the power and versatility of a computer.

We think that computers are the most remarkable tools that humankind has ever come up with, and we think that people are basically tool users. So if we can just get lots of computers to lots of people, it will make some qualitative difference to the world.

Machinery is aggressive. The weaver becomes a web, the machinist a machine. If you do not use the tools, they use you. All tools are in one sense edge-tools, and dangerous.

For most purposes, a man with a machine is better than a man without a machine.

A pen is to me as a beak is to a hen.

Just because we have the best hammer does not mean that every problem is a nail.

The tool user, provided the tool is made well, need not, and indeed should not, know anything about the tool.

What a computer is to me is it's the most remarkable tool that we have ever come up with. It's the equivalent of a bicycle for our minds.

You cannot mandate productivity, you must provide the tools to let people become their best.

The hand is the tool of tools.

All the tools and engines on earth are only extensions of man's limbs and senses.

Technology is not about tools, it deals with how Man works.