#tool

There was a time when nails were high-tech. There was a time when people had to be told how to use a telephone. Technology is just a tool. People use tools to improve their lives. ↗

— Tom Clancy

#high-tech #how #improve #just #lives

'Authoring tools' are terrible; there is almost no software that can create closed captions for media players. And of course there is no training. TV captioning is bad enough, and this stuff is generally worse. ↗

— Joe Clark

#bad #captions #closed #course #create

No doubt, man will continue to weigh and to measure, watch himself grow, and his Universe around him and with him, according to the ever growing powers of his tools. ↗

— Albert Claude

#around #continue #doubt #ever #grow

Some great men owe most of their greatness to the ability of detecting in those they destine for their tools the exact quality of strength that matters for their work. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

#detecting #exact #great #great men #greatness

I always say, 'Man, the Creator is preparing me for something. He's keeping the sun on me for some reason. He's keeping me aligned with that generation.' Because I genuinely love people, I love hip-hop, and I love using it as a tool to communicate and to create a better vibration. ↗

— Doug E. Fresh

#always #because #better #communicate #create

Hands are the tool of the painter, the artist. ↗

— Agnes Varda

#hands #painter #tool

All my vocals were recorded at home, which was great for me. You can actually have a studio in a computer program called ProTools. I did half the record with ProTools. ↗

— David Coverdale

#called #computer #computer program #did #great

Never underestimate the power of a simple tool. ↗

— Craig Bruce

#never underestimate #power #simple #tool #underestimate

Well, I don't think I've ever consciously come up with tricks and tools to, kind of, hide. I do think I'm a bit more vigilant, in terms of safety issues and things. And sometimes it is kind of nice to try to hold onto your anonymity. ↗

— Calista Flockhart

#bit #come #consciously #ever #hide

Sun's role in the grand scheme of development is to work on the runtime environment and the APIs. The tools we produce are much more for systems programmers, not enterprise developers. ↗

— John Fowler

#development #enterprise #environment #grand #more