Successful ecologists are successful in part because they have prepared their minds to attack scientific problems using a variety of intellectual tools. – David J. Anderson
The one complaint about the Internet that I wholeheartedly endorse is that most of these tools have been designed to peck at us like ducks: ‘Hey, there’s a new reply to your comment! Come look at it!’ – Clive Thompson
The second stream of material that is going to come out of this project is a programming environment and a set of programming tools where we really want to focus again on the needs of the newbie. This environment is going to have to be extremely user-friendly. – Guido van Rossum
I was interested in big unknowns, and the brain is one of the biggest, so building tools that allow us to regard the brain as a big electrical circuit appealed to me. – Edward Boyden
What that book does for me is give me the tools in the same way that I had the tools when I learned the regular scales or the alphabet. If you give me the tools, the syntax, and the grammar, it still doesn’t tell me how to write Ulysses. – David Baker
If you ask me what I’d rather be doing, well, I’d rather be home in California, watching TV, polishing my tools and working around the ranch. – Dick Dale
While many hackers have the knowledge, skills, and tools to attack computer systems, they generally lack the motivation to cause violence or severe economic or social harm. – Dorothy Denning
I’ve come to realize that artists and scientists are alike. They go through the same processes using different tools. They are both driven to answer the question, ‘What if?’ – Ellen Klages
The same tools that make any writer good, plus a cheerful willingness to suspend belief. – Fred Saberhagen
The Internet has got great tools. How we lived without Google all those years I don’t know. – Pete Hamill
Books are our umbilical cord to life. They connect us deeply, and with more meaning, to the world. They aren’t about escaping from ourselves but expanding ourselves and finding within us the tools we need to survive. – Matt Haig
We can use all the scientific tools, but it will never replace the palate or the talent of the chefs who are in the kitchen. – Daniel Humm
Even many of the teenagers who feel confident on navigating the web simply don’t have the skills needed to ‘write and create’ digital tools, not simply consume them. – Geoff Mulgan
What makes us human depends on what place on our evolutionary path we’re talking about. If you go back six million years ago, what makes us human is that we were walking upright. That’s all. If you go to 2.6 million years ago, it’s the fact that we’re designing and making stone tools. – Donald Johanson
Common hedging techniques include shorting stocks, buying put options, writing call options, and various types of leverage and paired transactions. While I do reserve the right to use these tools if and when appropriate, my firm opinion is that the best hedge is buying an appropriately safe and cheap stock. – Michael Burry
Insight into character comes from listening intently to the spoken word. The physical person, their charisma, charm and dramatic flair is more often used to persuade audiences, as they use these stealth tools of disguise and deception. – Maximillian Degenerez
A couple of taxi drivers have asked me if we can survive financially as an independent nation. I say, how come we are more stupid than Denmark or Finland or Sweden? They’ve all got the same amount of people. Are we all going to down tools? Is everybody in Scotland going to stop working? – Eddi Reader
I’ve always been very upfront about the way I write, and I’ve always used the tools humorists use, such as exaggeration. – David Sedaris
Think about the possibility: why is it that iPhones and iPads advance far faster than the health tools that are available to you to help take care of your family? – Dave deBronkart
We’ve got over 1 million merchants who have claimed their businesses on Foursquare, running specials and doing other things. What we want to do is take these tools used by the 50-100 national retailers and make them accessible to our 1 million merchants. Then you’ve got something really powerful. – Dennis Crowley
I understand the Second Amendment. I respect the Second Amendment. I think we need to use common sense tools to keep the American people safe, to keep our streets safe. – Eric Holder
We all join the President in applauding the sacrifices made by our brave men and women in uniform. But we must continue to provide them the tools they need to accomplish the difficult tasks they face. – Dick Durbin
For charity purposes, how do I help? A lot of prospective levers and tools have come into my life. – Eduardo Saverin
No tools have yet been met with in any of the gravels occurring at the higher levels of the valley of the Seine; but no importance can be attached to this negative fact, as so little search has yet been made for them. – Charles Lyell
Big Linux deployments have reached the point where it’s become a real problem for administrators that they don’t have nice tools to manage their servers and desktops. – Nat Friedman
One of my primary objects is to form the tools so the tools themselves shall fashion the work and give to every part its just proportion. – Eli Whitney
I use the computer as a tool. Like chance or the camera or the other tools I’ve used, it can open my eye to other ways of seeing or of making dances. It’s not simply to do a trick. – Merce Cunningham
The tools I learned photographing celebrities, now I want to use them to sell ideas. – David LaChapelle
An architect’s most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site. – Frank Lloyd Wright
