Tool Design Quotes

Any tool should be useful in the expected way, but a truly great tool lends itself to uses you never expected.

The intentions of a tool are what it does. A hammer intends to strike, a vise intends to hold fast, a lever intends to lift. They are what it is made for. But sometimes a tool may have other uses that you don't know. Sometimes in doing what you intend, you also do what the knife intends, without knowing.

When I was in high school and college, I thought everybody could think in pictures. And my first inkling to my thinking was even different was when I was in college and I read an article about, you know, some scientist said that the caveman could not have designed tools until they had language.

One of my primary objects is to form the tools so the tools themselves shall fashion the work and give to every part its just proportion.

I'm an engineer. I see myself as a toolmaker and the musicians are my customers... They use my tools.

Some people design buildings and aircraft carriers and cars - and I designed picks.

The point is that I don't design stuff for myself. I'm a toolmaker. I design things that other people want to use.

The people who designed the tools that make the Net run had their own ideas for the future.

Come to think of it, just about every tool was shaped like either a weenie or a pistol, depending on your point of view.

Havenotness is caused by society's failure to design and produce the right tools and goods. Money alone is not the panacea.

I have always enjoyed do-it-yourself projects, .. Being in a position to actually help design and bring tools to market is an incredible opportunity. Being able to fund charities as a result is phenomenal.