Quote by Milan Kundera
A worker may be the hammers master, but the hammer still prevails.

A worker may be the hammers master, but the hammer still prevails. A tool knows exactly how it is meant to be handled, while the user of the tool can only have an approximate idea. – Milan Kundera

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