“As soon as a thought or word becomes a tool, one can dispense with actually 'thinking' it, that is, with going through the logical acts involved in verbal formulation of it. As has been pointed out, often and correctly, the advantage of mathematics - the model of all neo-positivistic thinking - lies in just this 'intellectual economy.' Complicated logical operations are carried out without actual performance of the intellectual acts upon which the mathematical and logical symbols are based. ... Reason ... becomes a fetish, a magic entity that is accepted rather than intellectually experienced.” ThinkingHas BeensReasonLyingEconomyMagicInvolvedIntellectualModelsAdvantageToolsPerformancesMathematicsComplicatedAcceptedSymbolsMathematicalOperationsLogicalEntityFetish Author:Max Horkheimer
“The utility of a language as a tool of thought increases with the range of topics it can treat, but decreases with the amount of vocabulary and the complexity of grammatical rules which the user must keep in mind. Economy of notation is therefore important.” MindImportantLanguageEconomyAmountToolsTreatsIncreaseRangeComplexityUsersTopicsVocabularyUtilityDecrease Author:Kenneth E. Iverson
“Tools may be animate as well as inanimate; for instance, a ship's captain uses a lifeless rudder, but a living man for watch; for a servant is, from the point of view of his craft, categorized as one of its tools. So any piece of property can be regarded as a tool enabling a man to live, and his property is an assemblage of such tools; a slave is a sort of living piece of property; and like any other servant is a tool in charge of other tools.” MenWellsMayUsePoliticsViewsWatchesEconomyPiecesToolsPropertySlavePoint Of ViewShipsInstanceCraftsServantLiberalismCaptainsEnablingLifelessRuddersAssemblage Author:Aristotle
“For suppose that every tool we had could perform its task, either at our bidding or itself perceiving the need, and if-like the statues made by Dædalus or the tripods of Hephæstus, of which the poet says that "self-moved they enter the assembly of the gods" - shuttles in a loom could fly to and fro and a plectrum play a lyre all self-moved, then master-craftsmen would have no need of servants nor masters of slaves.” IfsNeedsMadeSelfPlayPoliticsEconomyPoetMastersToolsTasksMovedSlaveServantLiberalismStatuesAssemblyCraftsmanBiddingTripods Author:Aristotle
“Havenotness is caused by society's failure to design and produce the right tools and goods. Money alone is not the panacea.” WisdomPoliticsEconomyDesignProduceToolsLiberalismGoodsPanacea Author:R. Buckminster Fuller
“To compete in a global economy, our students must continue their education beyond high school. To make this expectation a reality, we must give students the tools they need to succeed, including the opportunity to take a college entrance exam.” NeedsGivingRealitySchoolOpportunityEconomyStudentsCollegeSucceedExpectationsHigh SchoolToolsIncludingEntrancesExamGlobal EconomyWorld Economy Author:Jennifer Granholm
“Despite its protests to the contrary, modern Christianity has become willy-nilly the religion of the state and the economic status quo. Because it has been so exclusively dedicated to incanting anemic souls into Heaven, it has been made the tool of much earthly villainy. It has, for the most part, stood silently by while a predatory economy has ravaged the world, destroyed its natural beauty and health, divided and plundered its human communities and households.” WorldHumansHas BeensMadeSoulStatesHeavenCommunityNaturalChristianityEconomyEconomicModernToolsEnvironmentalContraryDespiteDestroyedProtestDividedDedicatedSustainabilityHouseholdStatus QuoPredatoryVillainyEconomic Status Book:The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry Source: The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry
“In the minds of many Western politicians, military interventions and air strikes appear to have become legitimate policy tools since the NATO attacks on Yugoslavia during the 1990s. That's how they intend to bring everyone into line who don't share the Western view of democratization of society and the liberalization of the economy. But there is no future for that kind of globalization.” MindKindLinesViewsEconomyAirShareMilitaryPolicyPoliticianToolsWesternStrikesGlobalizationInterventionNatoDemocratizationYugoslaviaMilitary Intervention Author:Vladimir Yakunin