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Tools Quotes

Phones were created as social tools. Smartphones are especially good at being social, integrating text, voice, video and images in an endless number of apps that can serve a user’s needs, and all without the need for a web-based social network.

– Keith Teare

I felt that in time simple stone tools would be found in early Pleistocene in England.

– Louis Leakey

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

– LeBron James

It has not been for nothing that the word has remained man’s principal toy and tool: without the meanings and values it sustains, all man’s other tools would be worthless.

– Lewis Mumford

The mobile Web, location-based services, inexpensive and pervasive mobile apps, and new sorts of opportunities to access cars, bikes, tools, talent, and more from our neighbors and colleagues will propel peer-to-peer access services into market.

– Lisa Gansky

New technologies, however remarkable they might seem, are fundamentally just tools made by people for people.

– Klaus Schwab

I see no reason to use offensive tools unless you’re defending the country or in a state of war, or you want to achieve some really important thing for the good of the nation and others.

– Keith B. Alexander

One of the things I like to do during an ‘overhaul’ revision is bust out my highlighters and colored pens. Tools like these make me feel like a real writer.

– Lisa Graff

There is no governing structure for a pandemic, and little more than vague political pressure to ensure limited access to life-sparing tools and medicines for more than half the world population.

– Laurie Garrett

Since its enactment in the weeks following the September 11 terrorist attacks, the tools in the Patriot Act have been used by law enforcement to stop more than 400 terrorist threats to our families and communities.

– Jim Gerlach

We become what we behold. We shape our tools and then our tools shape us.

– Marshall McLuhan

Words are the basic tools, if you are a writer. But why? Why do you choose one set of tools rather than another?

– James D. Houston

We need financial regulation that allows businesses and the banks they use to have access to the tools that help keep prices of consumer goods – like groceries and home heating oil – steady, while ensuring that the taxpayers are never again on the hook for the types of wild bets that helped crash the economy in 2008.

– Jim Himes

On the back end, software programming tools and Internet-based services make it easy to launch new global software-powered start-ups in many industries – without the need to invest in new infrastructure and train new employees.

– Marc Andreessen

‘Authoring tools’ are terrible; there is almost no software that can create closed captions for media players. And of course there is no training. TV captioning is bad enough, and this stuff is generally worse.

– Joe Clark

I would never make up a character who didn’t exist or an event that didn’t transpire. If you’re a real writer, you have other tools in your toolbox to build drama.

– Koren Zailckas

Globalization doesn’t have to be a bad thing as long as government provides us all with the tools to cope in a changing world.

– John B. Larson

I think that novels are tools of thought. They are moral philosophy with the theory left out, with just the examples of the moral situations left standing.

– Jill Paton Walsh

We developed simple test tools to optimize imaging parameters. No company was interested in our idea.

– John Cameron

The foundations of democratic transition should be laid in accordance with a sincere and committed strategy that is supported by various policy tools, and implemented wisely.

– Recep Tayyip Erdogan

There is a difficulty in combating the type of terror that is perpetrated by groups of radical Jews. It’s terror from within, and it is difficult to bring these perpetrators to justice; we need to create tools in order to combat this style of terrorism.

– Reuven Rivlin

Central bankers have had enormous responsibilities thrust on them to compensate, essentially, for the failings of the political system. And my worry is we don’t have sufficient tools to do that, but we’re not willing to say it.

– Raghuram Rajan

A person’s credit report is one of the most important tools consumers can use to maintain their financial security and credit rating, but for so long many did not know how to obtain one, or what to do with the information it provided.

– Ruben Hinojosa

When you give kids the tools necessary to change their destiny, it’s really empowering.

– Octavia Spencer

How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words!

– Samuel Adams

Each year, several million children either die or suffer irreparable developmental defects because of vitamin A deficiency. Countless others are harmed by malnutrition and starvation. Yet many of these deaths would be preventable if we addressed them head on and used the tools that exist to stop them.

– Richard J. Roberts

The aggressive use of wiretaps is important: It shows that we are targeting white-collar insider-trading rings with the same powerful investigative tools that have worked so successfully against the mob and drug cartels.

– Preet Bharara

Some people just don’t have the tools to deal with the stuff life throws at them.

– Rebecca Hall

I just like being all over the place and writing whatever comes to mind. Having the tools? It’s such a gift.

– Regina Spektor

I don’t actually see that much difference between telling stories in journalism and telling them on film. The tools are very different, but the basic idea is the same.

– Peter Landesman

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