Backwards Quote by Martin Puryear

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

Master Precision. Be a precision instrument myself.

— Robert Bresson

“The ground of the superiority of hand-wrought goods … is a certain margin of crudeness. The margin must never be so wide as to…

— Lucy Worsley

A workman who wants to do his work well must first prepare his tools.

— Confucius

Precision is not one of the qualities that comes out in my work.

— Gil Kane

My preparation is about precision. It is a science.

— Conor McGregor

“high-performing manufacturing operations require and actively promote learning—instead of work being rigidly defined, the system of work is dynamic, with line workers performing experiments…

— Gene Kim

My work is on the one hand laboured, and on the other completely happenstance and intuitive. But that's the swish in the work, I…

— Ellen Gallagher

My great-grandfather Melvin had been a carpenter - so was my father - and they taught me the value of tools: saws, hammers, chisels,…

— Yusef Komunyakaa

I'd rather have a pencil and paper and do all my own calculations rather than rely on a machine. And I'll do most calculations…

— Lindsay Fox

As with the factory, so with the office: in an assembly line, the smaller the piece of work assigned to any single individual, the…

— Jill Lepore

The best results are achieved by using the right amount of effort in the right place at the right time. And this right amount…

— Tony Buzan