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Sunday, 6 July 2008

Daily Quote: "Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life." (Congreve, William - Joy)

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All that glitters is not gold.

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A tool is but the extension of a man's hand, and a machine is but a complex tool. And he that invents a machine augments the power of a man and the well-being of mankind.

-- Beecher, Henry Ward | Tools

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A worker may be the hammer's master, but the hammer still prevails. A tool knows exactly how it is meant to be handled, while the user of the tool can only have an approximate idea.

-- Kundera, Milan | Tools

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But lo! men have become the tools of their tools.

-- Thoreau, Henry David | Tools

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Don't force it... get a bigger hammer.

-- Bloch, Arthur | Tools

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

-- Carlyle, Thomas | Tools

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O God, thy sea is so great, and my boat is so small.

-- Unknown, Source | Tools

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There is a great satisfaction in building good tools for other people to use.

-- Dyson, Freeman | Tools

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