Tool Quotes - page 31

In return for the costliness and inconvenience, the squalor and discomfort of our lives, we get to participate in whatever is the latest. We are never left out of anything: we know what's happening, especially since so many of us practice what Paul Valéry called the "delirious professions." As Valéry wrote, "This is the name I give to all those trades whose main tool is one's opinion of oneself, and whose raw material is the opinion others have of you." Although Valéry was writing eighty years ago of Paris, he anticipated the excruciating position of those gay (and straight) New York "creative people" who must be perpetually original in a "population of uniques." The cruel contradiction of such a position is that the creative "live for nothing but to have, and make durable, the illusion of being the only one - for superiority is only a solitude situated at the present limits of a species." (Edmund White)
We have only one Windows. We don't have multiple Windows. They run across multiple form factors, but it's one developer platform, one store, one tool chain for developers. And you adapt it for different screen sizes and different input and output. View quote
Satya Nadella
Ever wish you could draw a few diagrams, press a button, and have a working software system that meets your needs? Sound like magic? Perhaps, but that's a major part of the Executable UML vision. The basic idea is that you will use a CASE tool to develop detailed UML diagrams and then supplement them by specifications written in a formal language, presumably the OMG's Object Constraint Language (OCL). The basic idea behind Executable UML is that systems can be modeled at a higher level of abstraction than source code, simulated to support validation of your efforts, and then translated into efficient code. This higher-level of abstraction should help to avoid premature design, enable you to change your system as your requirements evolve, and to delay implementation decisions until the last minute. View quote
Scott Ambler
As a design-scientist the artist discovers and perfects language that corresponds more directly to experience; he develops hardware that embodies its own software as a conceptual tool for coping with reality. View quote
Gene Youngblood
That's precisely what the founders left us: the power to adapt to changing times. They left us the keys to a system of self-government – the tool to do big and important things together that we could not possibly do alone. View quote
Barack Obama
Anthroposophie is not a religion but a tool for understanding of religions. View quote
Rudolf Steiner
On July 4 1983, I met with officials of the Committee for the Reform of the Written Language in Peking. They informed me that they were working on another revision of their word list and that they would consider making an alphabetized dictionary based on it. Their eyes lit up when I told them I would gladly pay a small fortune for such a reference tool. An alphabetically ordered dictionary would certainly be worth such a sum because of the huge amount of time it would save in my research. Naturally, I hope that the Chinese will be able to produce this type of dictionary at a cost that will make it widely available. View quote
Victor H. Mair
To go beyond reason we have to climb up the ladder of reason and go to the top of it. This will not upset reason as it is interested only in assembling the facts, whatever they might be. Reason is an ever-loyal tool; imagination an ever-failing fool. View quote
Barry Long
INNOVATION is the specific tool of entrepreneurs, the means by which they exploit change as an opportunity for a different business or a different service. It is capable of being presented as a discipline, capable of being learned, capable of being practiced. Entrepreneurs need to search purposefully for the sources of innovation, the changes and their symptoms that indicate opportunities for successful innovation. And they need to know and to apply the principles of successful innovation. View quote
Peter Drucker
Socrates: The shoemaker, for example, uses a square tool, and a circular tool, and other tools for cutting? Alcibiades: Yes. Socrates: But the tool is not the same as the cutter and user of the tool? Alcibiades: Of course not. ... Socrates: Then what shall we say of the shoemaker? Does he cut with his tools only or with his hands? Alcibiades: With his hands as well. Socrates: He uses his hands too? Alcibiades: Yes. ... Socrates: And does not a man use the whole body? Alcibiades: Certainly. Socrates: And that which uses is different from that which is used? Alcibiades: True. Socrates: Then a man is not the same as his own body? Alcibiades: That is the inference. Socrates: What is he, then? Alcibiades: I cannot say. Socrates: Nay, you can say that he is the user of the body. Alcibiades: Yes. Socrates: And the user of the body is the soul? Alcibiades: Yes, the soul. View quote
Plato
The hand is the tool of tools. (Aristotle)
Money is only a tool in business. View quote
Henry Ford
The most powerful tool to lift families out of extreme poverty is to grant micro-loans to women. View quote
Begum Aga Khan
As a research tool, the internet is invaluable. View quote
Noam Chomsky
Giving the kids a programming environment of any sort, whether it's a tool like Squeak or Scratch or Logo to write programs in a childish way - and I mean that in the most generous sense of the word, that is, playing with and building things - is one of the best ways to learn. View quote
Nicholas Negroponte
C is a razor-sharp tool, with which one can create an elegant and efficient program or a bloody mess. View quote
Brian Kernighan
WordPress, it's a complex tool; it's like the back of a digital SLR... but that doesn't work on a phone. View quote
Matt Mullenweg
This is what people need: an easy-to-deploy, easy-to-use tool. View quote
Nat Friedman
Annexation is probably the most valuable tool a city has to ensure orderly growth and development. View quote
Jeff Hawkins
While it is true that an inherently free and scrupulous person may be destroyed, such an individual can never be enslaved or used as a blind tool. View quote
Albert Einstein
The minority, the ruling class at present, has the schools and press, usually the Church as well, under its thumb. This enables it to organize and sway the emotions of the masses, and make its tool of them. (Albert Einstein)
Mysticism intends a state of "possession," not action, and the individual is not a tool but a "vessel" of the divine. View quote
Max Weber
Coercion is the tool of the desperate. View quote
Michael Bishop
First of all, I'm not here to present myself as a know-it-all. What I'm here for is to answer those questions that are related to that experience and related to the tool: Knowledge which can bring us the experience. Above all, we have the choice to say I don't like it or I like it. I am not here to try and convince anybody of anything. Rather, I'm here to offer something. View quote
Prem Rawat
In terms of weapons, the best disarmament tool so far is nuclear energy. We have been taking down the Russian warheads, turning it into electricity. 10 percent of American electricity comes from decommissioned warheads. View quote
Stewart Brand