If the fiscal cliff occurs, I don't think the Federal Reserve has the tools to offset that event.

- Ben Bernanke

Man must shape his tools lest they shape him.

- Arthur Miller

Having an intelligent secretary does not get rid of the need to read, write, and draw, etc. In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.

- Alan Kay

I worked at the Steel Company Of Wales when I was 17. My job was to supply tools to the guys working the blast furnaces.

- Anthony Hopkins

Although it is still important to develop an HIV vaccine, we have significant tools already at our disposal that can make a major impact on the trajectory of this epidemic.

- Anthony Fauci

I think we're all very curious about our own minds, but we just may not have the tools to channel that.

- Ariel Garten

Of course, I love tools. I also love arranging them, to the point where I came up with a name for my organizing metric: first-order retrievability.

- Adam Savage

White House officials acknowledge in broad terms that a president's time and public rhetoric are among his most valuable policy tools.

- Barton Gellman

If software's the only thing in your bag of tools, I'm not going to give you great odds.

- Astro Teller

Pro Tools was invented to quicken the recording process.

- Alex Ebert

I think that writing texts, publishing texts, selling texts in a physical book store is one of the important tools for breeding this new generation.

- Alexander Mamut

Carbon-carbon bond formation reactions employing organoboron compounds and organic electrophiles have recently been recognized as powerful tools for the construction of new organic compounds.

- Akira Suzuki

In some way, my fundamental feeling about music is that it's impossible to put a price tag on it. Human beings made music before they made a lot of other things, including tools.

- Amanda Palmer

Forecasting is simply not a strength of the species; we are much better with tools and narrative storytelling.

- Barry Ritholtz

We already have many of the technologies and tools that we need to build a sustainable future. What we don't have is a new way of thinking, and that's really the hardest part.

- Alex Steffen

Edged tools are dangerous things to handle, and not infrequently do much hurt.

- Agnes Repplier

'Girls' was my first audition. I'd just taken an audition class, and I was excited to implement those tools.

- Allison Williams

I trained as a stage actor and was given a lot of technical tools to play with.

- Alan Tudyk

I think you can have a ridiculously enormous and complex data set, but if you have the right tools and methodology then it's not a problem.

- Aaron Koblin

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

- Audre Lorde