Do you know where “home” is, for the person who posted that proverb?
I first heard it more than half a century ago, from an old machinist (tool & die maker). This was in the region known in the U.S. as the “midwest” (Michigan). As best I recall his words, the expression was:
It is a poor craftsman who blames his tools.
As a teen, I understood that to mean:
Take responsibility for the work you produce.
A decade or two later, with more life experience, I saw that proverb in a slightly different light:
Know yourself, and what you are capable of doing with the resources you have. Don’t promise what you can’t deliver. Have the integrity to admit that something is beyond your abilities.
Another decade or two, and I’m at a “steam and gas engine show” (or This One) with my kids. One of the presentations discussed the evolution of the Town Blacksmith Shop, to the Auto Repair Garage. One of the talking points was that a primary task of the Blacksmith’s Apprentice was to make his own set of tools, and his apprenticeship wasn’t finished until the Master Craftsman was convinced the apprentice had not only the skills, but also the tools, to do quality work. When machine tools became common in the last half of the 19th century, the early machinists did likewise - making many of the fixtures, gauges, jigs, squares and accessories they would use for the rest of their careers. Suddenly, I understood why the proverb stressed " . . . HIS tools.". They weren’t “the company’s tools”. They weren’t tools that he just happened to have. The craftsman had personally crafted many of those tools, and carefully specified others. If a tool had limitations, he alone was responsible for accepting the limitations, mitigating them, or eliminating them.
If your tool isn’t up to the task, learn to use it in a way that minimizes the limitations, or make (or otherwise obtain) a better tool.
Dale
. More like the application assumes that it is a model based on the extension, but it doesn’t complain if it cannot open it.