“Movies are in a much longer production conversation before an actor is even involved. I always thought of actors as the last piece of the puzzle - so you're a tool.” LastsActorsPiecesInvolvedConversationToolsProductionsPuzzles Author:Elizabeth Olsen
“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
“When you cut it up, put the pieces in your mouth and swallowed them, the British hamburger shaped itself to the bottom on your stomach like ballast, while interacting with your gastric juices to form an incipient belch of enormous potential, an airship which had been inflated in a garage. This belch, when silently released, would cause people standing twenty yards away to start examining the soles of their shoes. The vocalized version sounded like a bag of tools thrown into a bog.” PeopleFunnyFormCausesPiecesCuttingMouthsStandingToolsEnglandTwentiesBottomShoesBritishEnormousVersionsThrownBagsStomachYardsJuiceGarageExaminingInteractingHamburgersBogsBallastGastricAirships Book:Falling Towards England: (Unreliable Memoirs Continued) Source: Falling Towards England: (Unreliable Memoirs Continued)
“First of all, women inherently, I think, are quite capable of having lots of balls in the air. And so, like, it's all those skills you use; you analyze the problem, figure out your tools, and then go at it piece by piece.... It's like what you have to do in the morning to get your kids out the door [if you're a parent]. The skills are, I believe, the same. The patience issues are the same.” IfsThinkingFirstsBelieveUseProblemKidsI BelieveParentMorningIssuesPiecesDoorsAirFiguresSkillsCapableToolsBalls Author:Sylvia Mathews Burwell
“The tools of the academic designer are a piece of paper and a pencil with an eraser. If a mistake is made, it can always be erased and changed. If the practical-reactor designer errs, he wears the mistake around his neck; it cannot be erased. Everyone sees it.” IfsMadeMistakePiecesChangedPaperToolsPracticalsMade ItDesignerNecksAcademicPencilsErasers Author:Hyman Rickover
“A language like Ruby is a toolbox with some really neat little tools that do their job really nicely. JavaScript is a leather sheath with a really really sharp knife inside. That knife can cut anything, and with it you can do anything. You can kill a bear. You can catch fish. You can whittle a piece of wood into a pony. It's even a toothpick.” LittlesJobsLanguageCan DoPiecesCuttingBearsToolsFishesWoodsKnivesLeatherNeatReally NiceRubiesPoniesToolboxToothpicksSharp KnivesJavascript Author:Nick Morgan