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title: Favorite Quotes
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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.

> [!quote] _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.

## About Incentives

> [!quote] Charlie Munger
> Show me the incentive and I will show you the outcome.

> [!cite] Goodhart's Law
> When a measure becomes a target,
> it ceases to be a good measure.