“I held a nail in place and slammed it with the hammer. Best. Chore. Ever.”

“To a man with a hammer, everything looks like a nail.”

“As a technology, the book is like a hammer. That is to say, it is perfect: a tool ideally suited to its task. Hammers can be tweaked and varied but will never go obsolete. Even when builders pound nails by the thousand with pneumatic nail guns, every household needs a hammer.”

“I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail.”

“When you only have a hammer, everything looks like a nail.”

“Oh, a passing, skeptical kind of interest. I'm a hammer-and-nails kind of guy.”

“If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.”

“I have hurled westward the ashes of the uninvited guest!
and hammered stars into the unforgetting sky – like nails
I am Goya.”

“Some doors slammed in your face need to be glued and nailed shut so they can never be reopened.”

“When you don't have a hammer, you don't want anything to look like a nail.”