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 augments the power of a man and the well-being of mankind.
~ Henry Ward Beecher

Don't force it... get a bigger hammer.
~ Arthur Bloch

Man is a tool-using animal. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.
~ Thomas Carlyle

There is a great satisfaction in building good tools for other people to use.
~ Freeman Dyson

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 the user of the tool can only have an approximate idea.
~ Milan Kundera

But lo! men have become the tools of their tools.
~ Henry David Thoreau

O God, thy sea is so great, and my boat is so small.
~ Anonymous