Toolmakers Quotes

#1. When people ask me to define science fiction and fantasy I say they are the literatures that explore the fact that we are toolmakers and users, and are always changing our environment.

Nalo Hopkinson

#2. It's the technology, see? We can't get away from it. Anywhere you find people, you find it. Clever little contraptions. Cunning strategies. We're toolmakers born and bred; and even if you don't believe in anything else, you'd better believe in that. Because that's human nature.

Daniel H. Wilson

#3. Cats were not and are not tool makers the way humans became toolmakers. They are specifically adapted as obligate carnivores, This means the vegetarian cat is an oxymoron at best and a blatant lie at worst. Cats need meat. The concept of a Garden of Eden would be rather atrocious to them.

Leviak B. Kelly

#4. The toolmakers had been remade by their own tools.

Arthur C. Clarke

#5. Knowledge isn't power until it is applied.

Dale Carnegie

#6. I am needed here. Atlantis can burn in the nine hells for all I care. I have sacrificed enough to Poseidon. My days as high priest are done.

Alyssa Day

#7. It was easy, after all, simply to open the door and escape. It was easy, she thought, because she was not really escaping at all.

Patricia Highsmith

#8. It is a vice to spend years and centuries saying of progress, 'I should like it, but I do not want it.

Henri Barbusse

#9. I don't do the whole L.A. nightlife thing.

Michael Sheen