Beginning Quote by Franklin Foer

We make our tools, and then they shape us.

— Kenneth E. Boulding

From the point where our ancestors started making tools, people have been unable to survive without the things they make; in this sense, it…

— Neil MacGregor

We become what we behold. We shape our tools and then our tools shape us.

— Marshall McLuhan

We shape our tools and afterwards our tools shape us.

— Marshall McLuhan

Human beings are storytelling animals. That's what separates us from other creatures, not just having thumbs or using tools.

— Marion Dane Bauer

First we shape our tools, thereafter they shape us

— Marshall McLuhan

Our technology, our machines, is part of our humanity. We created them to extend ourselves, and that is what is unique about human beings.

— Ray Kurzweil

Human beings are tool-making animals. Since the prehistoric era, we have created and used a wide variety of objects. But now a significant change…

— John Twelve Hawks

If we are to use our tools in the service of fitting in on Earth, our basic relationship to nature--even the story we tell…

— Janine Benyus

Much of what we think of as human evolved long after the use of tools. It is probably more correct to think of much…

— Anonymous

We are connected to each other not only as humans, but to every living thing on the planet.

— Jacqueline Novogratz

We have not to construct human nature afresh, but to take it as we find it, and make the best of it.

— Dinah Maria Murlock Craik