Tool Selection Quotes

The ethical rule is from Samuel Johnson who believed that maintenance of easily removable ignorance by a responsible office holder was treacherous malfeasance in meeting moral obligation. The prudential rule is that underlying the old Warner & Swasey advertisement for machine tools: "The man who needs a new machine tool, and hasn't bought it, is already paying for it". The Warner & Swasey rule also applies, I believe, to thinking tools. If you don't have the right thinking tools, you, and the people you seek to help, are already suffering from your easily removable ignorance.

Yes, it does make the load rather heavy if you carry tools for every eventuality.

For me, choosing between fiction and nonfiction is really only about picking the right tool for the job.

Finding the tool is often half the battle.

Some great men owe most of their greatness to the ability of detecting in those they destine for their tools the exact quality of strength that matters for their work.

I don't have any particular loyalties to one technique or another. I'm just trying to use the best for the job.

Whenever the medium of photography is useful for a particular task, I use it. If another medium is more suitable I use that.

Words are the basic tools, if you are a writer. But why? Why do you choose one set of tools rather than another?

It doesn't matter what I use. It can be anything. What's interesting is how what I'm doing meets with the stuff I use.

Every writer has to figure out what works best - and often has to select and discard different tools before they find the one that fits.

Choose your tools carefully, but not so carefully that you get uptight or spend more time at the stationery store than at your writing table.

I feel like the beauty of this age of filmmaking is that there are more tools at your disposal, but it doesn’t mean that any of these new tools are automatically the right tools. And there are a lot of situations where we went very much old school and in fact used CG more to remove things than to add things.

Use a screwdriver instead of a hammer. Try to untighten the nut with your hand. Utilize the path of least resistance first.