The computer is a fast idiot, it has no imagination; it cannot originate action. It is, and will remain, only a tool to man.

-American LibraryAssociation
  Statement of the  American Library Association regarding the Univac computer exhibited at the NewYork World's Fair, 1964.

And he received them at their hand, and fashioned it with a graving tool, after he had made it a molten calf: and they said,These be thy gods,O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Exodus 32:4.

The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulationof words.If youcan control themeaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words.

-Dick, Philip K(indred)
  I Hope I Shall  Arrive Soon,'How To Build  A Universe That Doesn't Fall  Apart Two Days Later'.

A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.

-Irving,Washington
^20  The Sketch Book,'Rip Van Winkle'.

In manufacture and in handicrafts, the worker uses a tool; in the factory, he serves a machine.

-Marx, Karl Heinrich
  Das Kapital.

Hog Butcher for the World, Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat, Player with Railroads and the Nation's Freight Handler; Stormy, husky, brawling, City of the Big Shoulders.

-Sandburg, Carl
  Chicago Poems,'Chicago'.