Tools Quotes - Page 35

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

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

Information is the manager's main tool, indeed the manager's capital, and it is he who must decide what information he needs and how to use it.

The digital tools allow us to have control over what and how we can alter an image that was unimaginable in the era of analog photography.

What the entertainment industry can do is tempt you into making stupid mistakes, but the only tool that they have to tempt you is money. So if youre okay saying no to money, then you can say no to a lot of things that you might be embarrassed of later.

I don't think information overload is a function of the volume of information. It's a derivative of the volume of information plus the sense-making tools you have.

When the Fed decides that inflation is too high, they have the tools, and they've shown historically that they have the will, to bring it down. And, it might be painful.

I feel that the act of writing, in and of itself, is a tool towards probing that which you wouldn't without that pen in your hand. It's a strange, almost neurological phenomenon, and the words seem to generate more words - but only when you're writing. You can't do it in your head.

Somebody is going to find a way digitally that is just as innovative. In the end, the tools can change, but there is always someone who can think of something cool to do.

I use drugs to work. I never use them to escape or for pleasure. When you turn to drugs, all you're doing is turning inside, anyway. I only use drugs for construction. It's like one of my architectural tools.

I love to photograph the tools of one's trade: Duncan Grant's paintbrushes, the typewriter of Herman Hesse, or even my own guitar, a 1957 Fender Duo-Sonic.

I'd literally rather hang out at the T.G.I. Friday's in New Jersey than tool around at a place that sells $40 cheeseburgers.

The real subject of autobiography is not one's experience but one's consciousness. Memoirists use the self as a tool.

What passes for political realism may make for lively academic debates. But it often functions, ironically, as a tool of social control, rendering us passive with an analysis that overwhelms and paralyzes us.

There's nothing inherently lame about electricity. I've got a basement full of power tools that all operate with electricity, and they're manly items. And when you see a great big locomotive hauling a mile of freight cars, that's a hybrid. A lot of people don't understand that.

Film has always been a really good tool for me to communicate emotion about why I create a collection. I'm probably one of the first designers to make short films.

Scorecards are common in the political process, but they are inappropriate in the judicial process. The most important tools in the judicial confirmation process are not litmus paper and a calculator.

I believe that education is freedom. It provides the tools to affect one's own destiny.

Many succumb to despair and fail without realizing that they already possess all the tools needed to acquire great wealth.

Technologies can be liberating, but it can also be a tool of coercion and control.

As a research tool, the internet is invaluable.

Cyber attacks are not what makes the cool war cool. As a strategic matter, they do not differ fundamentally from older tools of espionage and sabotage.

Punctuation is a fabulous tool for controlling your reader - you even get to control where they breathe. That's what I call power!

The Internet is the greatest tool for any artist to have interaction with any audience.

The body becomes the carrier for the work. It's not really about the physical body; it really becomes the apparatus that carries and moves the work. I don't really consider the body as much; I look at it as a tool.