tools quotes

Men have become the tools of their tools.

I’m going to use all my tools, my God-given ability, and make the best life I can with it.

It is hard to overstate how valuable it is to have all the incredible tools that are used for human disease to study plants.

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

Science is a tool, and we invent tools to do things we want. It’s a question of how those tools are used by people.

Justice and truth are too such subtle points that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately.

Nobody’s ever said that pins are a tool of diplomacy.

I worked at the Steel Company Of Wales when I was 17. My job was to supply tools to the guys working the blast furnaces.

Men were not intended to work with the accuracy of tools, to be precise and perfect in all their actions.

Fiction is not necessarily about what you know, it’s about how you feel. That is the truth about fiction, and the other truth is that all science is a tool, and we use our tools not to actualise what we know, but to implement how we feel.

Please don’t make the mistake of thinking that ‚Oryx and Crake‘ is anti-science. Science is a way of knowing, and a tool. Like all ways of knowing and tools, it can be turned to bad uses. And it can be bought and sold, and it often is. But it is not in itself bad. Like electricity, it’s neutral.

Man is a tool-using animal. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.

Technology is nothing. What’s important is that you have a faith in people, that they’re basically good and smart, and if you give them tools, they’ll do wonderful things with them.

It’s not the tools that you have faith in – tools are just tools. They work, or they don’t work. It’s people you have faith in or not. Yeah, sure, I’m still optimistic I mean, I get pessimistic sometimes but not for long.

If you don’t have the time to read, you don’t have the time or the tools to write.

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.

If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.