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my-favorite-quotes.md

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 # Favorite Quotes
 
-## About Tools
-
-> [!quote] John Culkin, commonly attributed to Marshall McLuhan
-> We shape our tools and, thereafter, our tools shape us.
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-> [!quote] _[[thoreau_1854_walden|Walden]]_, Henry David Thoreau
-> Men have become the tools of their tools.
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-> [!quote] Jeff Duntemann
-> A good tool improves the way you work.
-> A great tool improves the way you think.
-
-> [!quote] Alan Watts
-> We are sick with a fascination
-> for the useful tools of names and numbers,
-> of symbols, signs, conceptions, and ideas.
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-> [!quote] Paul Arden
-> If you get stuck, draw with a different pen.
-> Change your tools; it may free your thinking.
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 ## About Process Optimization
 
 ### "It Takes an Engineer to Build a Bridge that Barely Stands"
@@ -110,4 +89,4 @@ and easily interpreted as an [optimization problem](https://en.wikipedia.org/wik
 
 > [!quote] Hofstadter's law
 > It always takes longer than you expect,
-> even when you take into account Hofstadter's law.
+> even when you take into account Hofstadter's law.