APAD: A Good Craftsman Never Blames His Tools

"A Good Craftsman Never Blames His Tools". As any old saying, it is often twisted and reinterpreted to mean whatever suits whoever uses it.  Inversion: "A Bad Craftsman Blames His Tools"

This assumes a talented craftsman will be good with any toolset you give him. Which is often used to push bad tools to engineers, because if they have any pride they will take the challenge and produce great work!

Which reminds me this little passive witty:

We, the unwilling
Led by the unknowing
Are doing the impossible
For the ungrateful
We have done so much
For so long
With so little
We are now qualified
To do anything
With nothing

 

所有跟帖： 

• 生意不好怪柜台～ -唐歌- ♀ (0 bytes) () 02/03/2024 postreply 06:06:49

• Hold on, Tomorrow will be better :-) -移花接木- ♂ (0 bytes) () 02/03/2024 postreply 10:27:56

• 我不知道，我没看见，和我没关系 -唐歌- ♀ (179 bytes) () 02/03/2024 postreply 18:12:12

• 我觉得是不是用“Hang in there”更合适一些？Hold on是不是 wait或者stop的意思？ -妖妖灵- ♀ (0 bytes) () 02/03/2024 postreply 19:39:52

• Yes. He places everything in the lap of the gods :-) -7grizzly- ♂ (0 bytes) () 02/03/2024 postreply 11:45:48

• 孟子曰：“君子不怨天，不尤人。” -妖妖灵- ♀ (0 bytes) () 02/03/2024 postreply 12:59:49

• Yet a craftsman, almost by definition, cannot be a 君子 :-) -7grizzly- ♂ (0 bytes) () 02/03/2024 postreply 14:10:16

• Where is the definition? BTW，plz write ur answer to the 楼上的坑 -妖妖灵- ♀ (0 bytes) () 02/03/2024 postreply 15:02:44

• There's no definition. Only imagination :-) -7grizzly- ♂ (0 bytes) () 02/03/2024 postreply 17:48:05

• Strive to be a good craftsman and improve ourselves -盈盈一笑间- ♀ (0 bytes) () 02/03/2024 postreply 13:22:31

• instead of blaming the tools -盈盈一笑间- ♀ (0 bytes) () 02/03/2024 postreply 13:23:14