The first recorded statement of the concept was Abraham Kaplan's, in 1964: "I call it the law of the instrument, and it may be formulated as follows: Give a small boy a hammer, and he will find that everything he encounters needs pounding."
” 该概念由Abraham Kaplan（英语：Abraham Kaplan）在1964年，第一次有记录的情况下提出：“我把它称为工具定律，它可以这样具体的表述：给一个小男孩一个锤子，然后他会发现所有他遇到的事物都需要敲打。