Become Somebody’s Responsibility

Become Themselves Through Use

Become Visible Through Use

Change Hands

Change Meaning Depending On Who Holds Them

Convert

Convert Knowledge Into Action

Create Freedom

Create Leverage

Decay Through Neglect

Depend On Maintenance

Depend On Quality More Than Timing

Deteriorate Without Being Noticed

Exist Because Effort Exists

Exist To Be Carried

Exist To Reduce Effort

Extend Reach

Have To Be Carried Across

Improve By Being Carried

Improve By Being Passed Along

Invite Ownership

Invite Touch

Lend

Make A House Feel Lived In

Make The Future Reachable

Need A Container

Punish Neglect

Quietly Save Effort

Reward Familiarity

Reward Inspection

Reward Maintenance

Reward Preparation

Reward Reliability

Reward Reuse

Turn Resources Into Wealth

Wait

Wait Patiently

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, in each instance, has intrinsic politics. Technology is the tool of now.

All tools have intrinsic politics and technology is the tool of now. Godfrey Reggio

 itself fashions the work and gives to every part its just proportion.

One of my primary objects is to form the tools so the tools themselves shall fashion the work and give to every part its just proportion. Eli Whitney

is no longer something man uses. the tool now uses men. Men have become the tools of their tools.

Men have become the tools of their tools. Henry David Thoreau

is incoherent without a given purpose. Nobody has ever encountered a tool created wholly for a use yet to be found, on materials yet to be discovered.

Does not a specialist in technological problems tell us that 'nobody has ever encountered a tool created wholly for a use yet to be found, on materials yet to be discovered' ' l

is not only made by humans. Man places his extraordinary knowledge in tools.

This placement of temporal logics in artifacts clearly forms a feature of humans that is quite different from anything shared with any other animal not only do humans make tools, and not only do humans have knowledge far beyond what animals exhibit, but humans place this knowledge in tools.

is a thing which, when man changes, he also changes his gods.

achanges his tools and his techniques, his ways of producing and distributing the goods of life, he also changes his gods. Tribal, town, and technopolitan existence represent first of all different forms of social, economic, and political community. As such they symbolize different religions or belief systems. Ibid. COX, Harvey (1929 )

is sometimes best when indirect. The most useful and least expensive household repair tool is the telephone.

The most useful and least expensive household repair tool is the telephone.

is determinative of perception. When you give a child a hammer, everything becomes a nail.

When you give a child a hammer, everything becomes a nail.

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