Quotes About Tools

Sociologist James Evan reviewed citations in more than thirty-four million articles published in academic journals and noted how the number of different citations declined after the advent of search engines. These information-filtering tools, he observed, "serve as amplifiers of popularity, quickly establishing and then continually reinforcing a consensus about what information is important and what isn't."36

An acting teacher friend of mine readies her students for auditions by telling them to imagine placing all the techniques and tools they've acquired into a barrel, and put it on like rodeo clowns do. Not to be glanced at or checked on anxiously, but to be with you and at the ready when the audition demands.

My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky.

It is commonly believed that anyone who tabulates numbers is a statistician. This is like believing that anyone who owns a scalpel is a surgeon.

Teaching is the only major occupation of man for which we have not yet developed tools that make an average person capable of competence and performance. In teaching we rely on the "naturals," the ones who somehow know how to teach.

I'm a great believer that any tool that enhances communication has profound effects in terms of how people can learn from each other, and how they can achieve the kind of freedoms that they're interested in.

I am like a hardware store. I screw. I nut. I bolt.

The key to fixing a big problem is to select the right tools.

Typinator, Typeit4me, or ActiveWords can type the current date on command. (Bit levers are covered in the "other essentials

Python has a host of tools that most would consider functional in nature, which we enumerated in the preceding chapter — closures, generators, lambdas, comprehensions, maps, decorators, function objects, and more.

One of the first questions that bewildered beginners often ask is: how do I find information on all the built-in tools?

give people a tool, and they'll code for a day; teach them how to build tools, and they'll code for a lifetime. This

A dentist at work in his vocation always looks down in the mouth.

I believe it is essential for our planetary future to develop tools that can change the consciousness which has created the crisis that we are in.

Future is about creating value. If we have tools to empower each other, more possibility is reality.

I care about the diversity of the mindset of the people creating our future, and the windows through which we see it, and the tools we use to build it.

The goal is to provide analytical tools that will last students a lifetime

I believe consistency and orthogonality are tools of design, not the primary goal in design.

I was doing some decorating, so I got out my step-ladder. I don't get on with my real ladder.

Humans have long since possessed the tools for crafting a better world. Where love, compassion, altruism and justice have failed, genetic manipulation will not succeed.

The theory that languages are tools used for particular purposes, sometimes for many different purposes, means that extinct languages belong neither in a museum of art nor in a museum of natural history. Tools are meant to be surpassed by better tools. Once they are, they should be preserved in a museum of technology, of human ingenuity, of the cultural past.

Probably the earliest fly swatters were nothing more than some sort of striking surface attached to the end of a long stick.

What if some games, and the more general concept of 'play,' not only provide outlets for entertainment but also function as means for creative expression, as instruments for conceptual thinking, or as tools to help examine or work through social issues.

Stoicism is about developing the tools to deal as effectively as humanly possible with the ensuing conflicts, does not demand perfection, and does not provide specific answers: those are for fools (Epictetus's word) who think the world is black and white, good versus evil, where it is always possible to clearly tell the good guys from the bad guys. That is not the world we live in, and to pretend otherwise is more than a bit dangerous and not at all wise.