Brian Morton Quotes

Subtlety and indirection are important tools, but you can't scale the highest peaks with these tools alone.

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• Be reactionary. React to what the market wants. And the market wants one-on-one real time engagement. Now that we have the tools to engage, I'm going to continue fighting for the end user.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • Time
  • Real
  • Fighting

• White House officials acknowledge in broad terms that a president's time and public rhetoric are among his most valuable policy tools.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Time
  • House
  • White

• Big Linux deployments have reached the point where it's become a real problem for administrators that they don't have nice tools to manage their servers and desktops.

  

  Nat Friedman
  • Real
  • Nice
  • Problem

• We have finished the job, what shall we do with the tools?

  

  Haile Selassie
  • Job
  • Tools
  • Finished

• We must use all the tools of American power in resolving disputes, including diplomacy. And we must have sufficient congressional debate and oversight before ever putting another U.S. solider in harm's way.

  

  Barbara Lee
  • Power
  • American
  • Tools

• This country is conducive to making money. Once you learn this lesson and make your first deal, you will really appreciate the tools available to you in the United States, the tools that will help you 'boot-strap' yourself into a large income.

  

  E. Joseph Cossman
  • Country
  • Money
  • Help

• We have the tools, but we have to learn how to use them. That is my political philosophy.

  

  Harri Holkeri
  • Political
  • Philosophy
  • Tools

• I have high hopes that GIS will become increasingly relevant for landscape architects as we make the tools easier to use for the design process of just inventory and mapping.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • High
  • Design
  • Process

• I believe that tablets - and especially the iPad - are extremely versatile and productive tools for consumers, schools and businesses and are better for many tasks than the PC or the smartphone.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Believe
  • Better
  • Tools

• As a nation, we need to do everything we can to make sure those who have served have the tools they need to succeed in civilian life.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Life
  • Succeed
  • Tools

• We tend to think of Steam as tools for content developers and tools for producers. We're just always thinking: how do we want to make content developers' lives better and users' lives a lot better? With Big Picture Mode, we're trying to answer the question: 'How can we maximize a content developers' investment?'

  

  Gabe Newell
  • Thinking
  • Trying
  • Question

• All designed tools and objects are sort of extensions of human abilities, and they do tend to make life richer for us. But, an awful lot of designs, especially in this country, make life a lot more inconvenient. I'm thinking, for instance, of high-fidelity units that have so many switches and toggles and buttons and things that they confuse most people.

  

  Victor Papanek
  • People
  • Life
  • Thinking

• Finding the tool is often half the battle.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • Battle
  • Half
  • Tools

• The specifically human capacity for language enables children to provide for auxiliary tools in the solution of difficult tasks, to overcome impulsive action, to plan a solution to a problem prior to its execution, and to master their own behavior.

  

  Lev Vygotsky
  • Children
  • Action
  • Language

• Discipline is the basic set of tools we require to solve life’s problems. Without discipline we can solve nothing. With only some discipline we can solve only some problems. With total discipline we can solve all problems.

  

  M. Scott Peck
  • Life
  • Problem
  • Discipline

• It is impossible to repeat in one period what was done in another.The pointof view isnotthesame, anymorethan are the tools, the ideals, the needs, or the painters' techniques.

  

  Auguste Renoir
  • Done
  • Period
  • Tools

• Havenotness is caused by society's failure to design and produce the right tools and goods. Money alone is not the panacea.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Money
  • Society
  • Alone

• There is always work, and tools to work withal, for those, who will.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Work
  • Tools

• The hand is the tool of tools.

  

  Aristotle
  • Hand
  • Tools
  • Tool

• We think that computers are the most remarkable tools that humankind has ever come up with, and we think that people are basically tool users. So if we can just get lots of computers to lots of people, it will make some qualitative difference to the world.

  

  Steve Jobs
  • People
  • Tools
  • Computers

• New York's my home. Born and raised. I'm a New Yorker to the bone.

  

  Vanessa Ferlito
  • Home
  • Born
  • New

• I've kind of learned this about Joss Whedon. Never say never. I've learned that. I also have another rule about Joss Whedon. Never say no. Just... whatever Joss Whedon wants to do, just do it.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Kind
  • Never
  • Just Do It

• My position has always been that the way people age and the signs that we show of aging is nature's way of tattooing. It's natural scarification, and the life you lead gives you the symbols and the emblems of your life, the road map you followed.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • People
  • Life
  • Nature

• Subtlety and indirection are important tools, but you can't scale the highest peaks with these tools alone.

  

  Brian Morton
  • Tools
  • Subtlety
  • Indirection