Tools Quotes - Page 29

• I think Twitter is best when it sparks conversations elsewhere. To use YouTube and Facebook and all the tools we have available to us today to respond and also promote and answer and engage is awesome.

  Jack Dorsey

  Thinking, Use, Answers

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• It is clear we can make reforms to better ensure we are giving law enforcement all of the tools they need while maintaining the appropriate safeguards to protect the very freedoms we cherish.

  Leonard Boswell

  Law, Giving, Reform

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• It's fine to have social media that connects us with old friends, but we need tools that help us discover new people as well.

  Ethan Zuckerman

  Media, People, Old Friends

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• There's nothing an artist needs more - even more than excellent tools and stamina - than a deadline.

  Adriana Trigiani

  Artist, Needs, Excellent

  Adriana Trigiani (2010). “Viola in Reel Life”, p.113, Simon and Schuster

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• Indeed, the best practical reason to think that social media can help bring political change is that both dissidents and governments think they can. All over the world, activists believe in the utility of these tools and take steps to use them accordingly. And the governments they contend with think social media tools are powerful, too, and are willing to harass, arrest, exile, or kill users in response.

  Clay Shirky

  Powerful, Believe, Thinking

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• Books to judicious compilers, are useful; to particular arts and professions, they are absolutely necessary; to men of real science, they are tools: but more are tools to them.

  Samuel Johnson

  Art, Real, Book

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• The previous regime ... reduced man to a means of production and nature to a tool of production. Thus it attacked both their very essence and their mutual relationship. It reduced gifted and autonomous people to nuts and bolts in some monstrously huge, noisy, and stinking machine.

  Vaclav Havel

  War, Mean, Men

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• The International Brigade was not formed to protect freedom and democracy. It was founded as a tool of of the Comintern, to promote the interests of the Soviet Union - and thereby of Joseph Stalin, the butcher of millions. It made political sense for the International Brigade to recruit non-communists - useful fools was what Lenin had called such people in an earlier manipulation of gullible decency - but of course most were then vetted by the NKVD, the Soviet Union's secret police.

  Kevin Myers

  War, People, Political

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• GOTO, n.: A programming tool that exists to allow structured programmers to complain about unstructured programmers.

  Raymond Simard

  Complaining, Computer, Programming

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• Language is always evolving.
  It's difficult to read Shakespeare now
  because language has shifted. Similarly,
  kids these days can get to the point
  really quick in about 140 characters
  or less because of these new tools.

  Erik Qualman

  Character, Kids, Language

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• The bicycle is the perfect transducer to match man's metabolic energy to the impedance of locomotion. Equipped with this tool, man outstrips the efficiency of not only all machines but all other animals as well.

  Ivan Illich

  Animal, Men, Cycling

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• You need to treat your finances as a resource God has provided to fulfill your vision, not a tool to fill your life with luxuries

  Myles Munroe

  Luxury, Vision, Needs

  Myles Munroe (2009). “Keys for Vision”, p.32, Whitaker House

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• Social media is not an end in itself. It's just another tool to reach people.

  Simon Mainwaring

  Media, People, Social

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• Thanks to the leadership of Vice President Gore, we have a government for the Information Age, once again a government that is a progressive instrument of the common good, rooted in our oldest values of opportunity, responsibility and community, devoted to fiscal responsibility, determined to give our people the tools they need to make the most of their own lives in the 21st century, a 21st century government for 21st century America.

  William J. Clinton

  Responsibility, Opportunity, America

  Clinton, William J. (2000). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1999”, p.62, Best Books on

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• Tonight, I propose a 21st Century Crime Bill to deploy the latest technologies and tactics to make our communities even safer. Our balanced budget will help put up to 50,000 more police on the street in the areas hardest hit by crime, and then to equip them with new tools from crime-mapping computers to digital mug shots. We must break the deadly cycle of drugs and crime.

  William J. Clinton

  Technology, Community, Police

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• The piece of equipment I'm most found off is my telescope. The other night I had a superb view of the moon.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Moon, Night, Views

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• The technologies which have had the most profound effects on human life are usually simple. A good example of a simple technology with profound historical consequences is hay. Nobody knows who invented hay, the idea of cutting grass in the autumn and storing it in large enough quantities to keep horses and cows alive through the winter. All we know is that the technology of hay was unknown to the Roman Empire but was known to every village of medieval Europe. Like many other crucially important technologies, hay emerged anonymously during the so-called Dark Ages.

  Freeman Dyson

  Horse, Dark, Winter

  "Infinite in All Directions" by Freeman Dyson, Ch. 8, (p. 135), 1988.

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• Technology, in short, cannot teach me how to do without technology.

  Pico Iyer

  Technology, Teach

  "The Wired Diaries". www.wired.com. January 01, 1999.

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• People are often very frightened of their anger. They feel it will cause them to do something harmful. If you have this fear, create a safe situation where you can express your anger, alone or with a trusted therapist or friend. Allow yourself to talk angrily, shout, hit pillows, whatever you feel like. Once you've done this in a safe environment, you will have released some of the charge, and you can look underneath the anger to find what you need to do to take better care of yourself. Like any emotion, anger is a valuable tool, teaching us who we are and how we feel.

  Shakti Gawain

  Anger, Teaching, Safe Environment

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• Hatha yoga is a powerful tool for self-transformation. It asks us to bring our attention to our breath, which helps us to still the fluctuations of the mind and be more present in the unfolding of each moment.

  Cyndi Lee

  Powerful, Yoga, Self

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• Perl is like vise grips. You can do anything with it but it is the wrong tool for every job.

  Bruce Eckel

  Jobs, Can Do, Perl

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• Most schools have only a microwave or deep fryer, hardly the tools needed to feed our children real, fresh food.

  Mark Hyman, M.D.

  Children, Real, School

  Twitter post from Jan 27, 2017

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• Nothing is forever, if you have enough power tools.

  Albie Sachs

  Men, Forever, Enough

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• The idea of having more technology solving this idea of hyperactive lifestyle is not really the mainstream problem. I think the real innovation that’s going to be rewarded will be on things like, let’s convert our computers from being tools to being companions. Let’s convert our computers from being utilitarian to being enlightening. These are human needs.

  Horace Dediu

  Real, Technology, Thinking

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• I believe that this is a different war than America has ever fought in the past. It is a nonconventional war. It means that you've got to use every tool you've got available to you...

  Hugh Shelton

  War, Believe, Mean

  "America's New War: Responding to Terrorism". "CNN Larry King Live", edition.cnn.com. October 1, 2001.

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