Capable Quote by Charles Babbage

In a sense, every tool is a machine--the hammer, the ax, and the chisel. And every machine is a tool. The real distinction is…

— Herbert Read

A tool is usually more simple than a machine; it is generally used with the hand, whilst a machine is frequently moved by animal…

— Charles Babbage

A tool is but the extension of a man's hand, and a machine is but a complex tool. And he that invents a machine…

— Henry Ward Beecher

A worker may be the hammer's master, but the hammer still prevails. A tool knows exactly how it is meant to be handled, while…

— Milan Kundera

The machine is a tool. But it is not a neutral tool. We are deeply influenced by the machine while using it.

— Jacques Ellul

The difference between "machines" and "engines" is obviously this, that machines need more workmen and greater power to make them take effect, as for…

— Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

The intentions of a tool are what it does. A hammer intends to strike, a vise intends to hold fast, a lever intends to…

— Philip Pullman

“Using machines to make other machines allowed finer tolerances to be maintained-sometimes down to a thousandth of an inch"-and this in turn meant that…

— Thomas Sowell

You insist that there is something a machine cannot do. If you tell me precisely what it is a machine cannot do, then I…

— John von Neumann

To regard human beings as tools - as instruments - for the use of other human beings is not only unscientific but it is…

— Alfred Korzybski

The difference between machines and human beings is that human beings can be reproduced by unskilled labour.

— Arthur C. Clarke

The successful construction of all machinery depends on the perfection of the tools employed; and whoever is a master in the arts of tool-making…

— Charles Babbage