A Month of Hardware Quotes

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In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.

-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Man is a tool-using animal . . . Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.

-- Thomas Carlyle

Nothing came easy. I was just born with a need to explore every toolshop of my mind, and with long searching and hard work.

-- Gordon Parks

Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory.

-- Denis Diderot

Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them all.

-- Oliver Wendell Holmes

Temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.

-- Washington Irving

The anvil is not afraid of the hammer.

-- Charles H. Spurgeon

The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.

-- Confucius

The good ideas are all hammered out in agony by individuals, not spewed out by groups.

-- Charles Browder

The hammer is the abstraction of each one of its hammerings.

-- Jose Ortega y Gasset

The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house.

-- Audre Lorde

The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity.

-- Zig Ziglar

The pioneers cleared the forests from Jamestown to the Mississippi with fewer tools than are stored in the typical modern garage

-- Dwayne Laws ston

The three most dangerous things in the world are a programmer with a soldering iron, a hardware type with a program patch and a user with an idea.

-- Unknown

Things must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools.

-- Benjamin Disraeli

Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.

-- Robert F. Kennedy

Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.

-- Henry Ward Beecher

We shape our tools and thereafter they shape us.

-- John Culkin

When the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.

 -- Abraham Maslow

Words are tools which automatically carve concepts out of experience.

-- Julian S. Huxley

Work! Thank God for the swing of it, for the clamoring, hammering ring of it.

-- Angela Morgan

You can't expect to meet the challenges of today with yesterday's tools and expect to be in business tomorrow.

-- Unknown

You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

-- James A. Froude

You don't learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard, but by attacking and getting well hammered yourself.

-- George Bernard Shaw

A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench than a loafer will accomplish with all the tools in a machine shop.

-- Robert Hughes

In most cases, information is more valuable than the hardware which processes it.

-- Grace Murray Hopper

A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on a cold iron.

-- Horace Mann

All the tools and engines on earth are only extensions of man's limbs and senses.

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Each is given a bag of tools,
A shapeless mass and a book of rules;
And each must make, ere life is flown,
A stumblingblock or a steppingstone.

-- R.L. Sharpe

Each thought is a nail that is driven
In structures that cannot decay;
And the mansion at last will be given
To us as we build it each day.

-- George Eliot

Every tool carries with it the spirit by which it had been created.

-- Werner Karl Heisenberg