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