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+title: Tools
+tags: []
+---
+# Tools
+
+A tool is a _thing_ used to achieve an objective.
+Tools may be a physical object like a hand tool or power tool,
+a piece of [[software|application software]],
+a process, a technique,
+or something more conceptual like a way of thinking (paradigm).
+
+Tools may have multiple uses,
+some intended and some not.
+
+It is well understood that quality and efficiency suffer
+when one uses the wrong tool for the job.
+
+## Quotes
+
+> [!quote] John Culkin, commonly attributed to Marshall McLuhan
+> We shape our tools and, thereafter, our tools shape us.
+
+> [!quote] _[[thoreau_1854_walden|Walden]]_, Henry David Thoreau
+> Men have become the tools of their tools.
+
+> [!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.
+
+> [!quote] Paul Arden
+> If you get stuck, draw with a different pen.
+> Change your tools; it may free your thinking.