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Tools Quotes by Clay Shirky
- Communications tools don't get socially interesting until they get technologically boring... It's when a technology becomes normal, then ubiquitous, and finally so pervasive as to…
- A revolution doesn’t happen when society adopts new tools. It happens when society adopts new behaviors
- Indeed, the best practical reason to think that social media can help bring political change is that both dissidents and governments think they can. All…
- When you adopt a tool you adopt the management philosophy embedded in that tool.
- Communications tools don't get socially interesting until they get technologically boring.
- Our social tools are not an improvement to modern society, they are a challenge to it.
- The tools that a society uses to create and maintain itself are as central to human life as a hive is to bee life. Though…
More Tools Quotes
- Science is a tool, and we invent tools to do things we want. It's a question of how those tools are used… — Margaret Atwood
- Fiction is not necessarily about what you know, it's about how you feel. That is the truth about fiction, and the other… — Margaret Atwood
- Please don't make the mistake of thinking that 'Oryx and Crake' is anti-science. Science is a way of knowing, and a tool.… — Margaret Atwood
- The difference between a tool and a machine is not capable of very precise distinction; nor is it necessary, in a popular… — Charles Babbage
- A tool is usually more simple than a machine; it is generally used with the hand, whilst a machine is frequently moved… — Charles Babbage
- At each increase of knowledge, as well as on the contrivance of every new tool, human labour becomes abridged. — Charles Babbage
- Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your own failings, passions,… — Bernard Baruch
- How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words! — Samuel Adams
- A young woman who knows and loves the Book of Mormon, who has read it several times, who has an abiding testimony… — Ezra Taft Benson
- A father's disappointment can be a very powerful tool. — Michael Bergin
- Your voice is your tool and represents you. It's very important to have a good voice where you can be understood. — Jacqueline Bisset
- I find fragrance to be such a mood enhancer and definitely a seduction tool. — Christina Aguilera