Traditional Tools Quotes

The Arms used by the Indians in War were formerly a Bow and Arrow with a Stone Axe and Mallet, but now they get from our People Guns, Swords, Iron Axes and Mallets.

I managed to work for more than 50 years with just paper, pencils and film. My son's generation and the one coming up after can't work with just paper and pencils any more. I managed to avoid using a computer. I don't even have a cellphone. I feel lucky I managed to live like that.

Pocketknives are kind of drifting out of our cultural consciousness, which I think is a terrible thing.

Judges should be in the business of declaring what the law is using the traditional tools of interpretation, rather than pronouncing the law as they might wish it to be in light of their own political views.

There are times where I would keep three typewriters on a table, and I'd have three complete thoughts going. With computers, you make folders, files - I don't know about those things. I have sheaves of paper polluted with words and paragraphs. I found it a good tool for me. And it keeps your hands strong for guitar playing.

The spinning wheel is as much a necessity of Indian life as air and water.

I don't use a computer in writing at all. I'm sort of old-fashioned about it.

Until film is just as easily accessible as a pen or pencil, then it's not completely an art form. In painting, you can just pick up a piece of chalk, a stick, or whatever. In sculpture, you can get a rock. Writing, you just need a pencil and paper. Film has been a very elitist medium. It costs so much money.

I work by hand, with a fountain pen, in bound notebooks I buy in India.

Stationery gets me excited because it has an individual character, unlike computers, which may be convenient but are generic and bland.

In the developing world, people often use quite basic technology. Many of the most imaginative schemes are using what we'd count as old tech.

I love my molcajete, which is a Mexican mortar and pestle. There is no comparison in flavor to when I use a processor.