Machinery is aggressive. The weaver becomes a web, the machinist a machine. If you do not use the tools, they use you. All tools are in one sense edge-tools, and dangerous.
Great leaders don't blame the tools they are given. Great leaders work to sharpen them.
When I was little, I used to work with my dad on the engine of his car. Mostly this was a matter of me handing him wrenches.
I think my imagination dictates the technologies I use. But at the same time, my imagination can be technologic. Sometimes I see a tool and I know immediately how to use it, but most of the time I use the tool for an idea I already have.
We must use time as a tool, not as a couch.
Even the simplest tools can empower people to do great things.
I think it is really important to not only take advantage of these tools that you have at your disposal but also to really take the time to develop ideas within yourself and think about what you want to animate, and then you can use these tools to create what you want to create.
The mistake people keep making is that if they find a wonderful new tool, like email, they have to give up all others. They don't. You have simply added another very useful means to your communications repertoire.
A man is a great bundle of tools. He is born into this life without the knowledge of how to use them. Education is the process of learning their use.
