"Best productivity tool ever invented? Easy...the word "no"."
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"We have the most crude accounting tools. It's tragic because our accounts and our national arithmetic doesn't tell us the things that we need to know."
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"For everybody in their busy lives, you need to invest in sharpening your tools, and you need to invest in longevity."
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"You want failures to be small and informational. Silicon Valley does very well. It knows how to use failure as a tool for improvement."
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"There is a great satisfaction in building good tools for other people to use."
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"You must accept that if the computer is a tool, it is the job of tool user to know what to use it for."
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"In the days when the nation depended on agriculture for its wealth it made the Lord Chancellor sit on a woolsack to remind him where the wealth came from. I would like to suggest we remove that now and make him sit on a crate of machine tools."
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"A life I didn't choose chose me: even my tools are the wrong ones for what I have to do."
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"It's important not to look like a tool in front of your posse."
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"The ego is a tool. You don't separate it. It's a tool for the spirit."
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"A lawyer without books would be like a workman without tools."
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"Larousse is an invaluable tool for any cook. I've used this great resource all throughout my cooking career, and of course I look forward to the new edition. New information and knowledge are always welcome."
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"I have a thing for tools."
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"Perception is a powerful tool."
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"A computer is the most incredible tool we've ever seen. It can be a writing tool, a communications center, a supercalculator, a planner, a filer and an artistic instrument all in one, just by being given new instructions, or software, to work from. There are no other tools that have the power and versatility of a computer."
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"Tools and techniques ought to be an extension of consciousness, but they can just as easily be a protection from consciousness. Then the tools become defence mechanisms... against the unconscious."
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"The good news is we have the technology and the tools to alleviate poverty on a global scale. All that is standing in our way is education and will."
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"The leading princes are the most servile tools of English despotism. . . . The native princes are the stronghold of the present abominable English system."
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"I have owed you this letter for a very long time-but my fingers have avoided the pencil as though it were an old and poisoned tool."
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"First we build the tools, then they build us."
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