Is The Mother Of Invention Quotes

#1. I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention ... arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble.

Agatha Christie

#2. Not until Freud's writings became popular did descriptions of infants center on relationships with their mothers. The idea that children have feelings of any lasting importance for their development is a very recent invention (or insight if you wish).

Sandra Scarr

#3. Poverty is the mother of invention

Sunday Adelaja

#4. Necessity is the mother of all invention.

Albert Einstein

#5. Gutenberg's invention of printing is the greatest event-the mother of revolution

Victor Hugo

#6. Experiences are everything. And businesses must create experiences that mean something. If necessity is the mother of invention, then vision is the father of innovation.

Brian Solis

#7. As Napoleon Hill said, necessity may be the mother of invention but it is also the father of crime.

S. Hussain Zaidi

#8. We say that necessity is the mother of invention, and no country has more of a necessity to develop clean power than China.

Thomas Friedman

#9. Invention is the mother of necessity.

Thorstein Veblen

#10. Luxury, not necessity, is the mother of invention. Every artifact is somewhat wanting in its function, and that is what drives its evolution.

Henry Petroski

#11. They say necessity is the mother of invention, but if that's the case, laziness must be its father.

Anonymous

#12. A bad memory is the mother of invention.

Gerald Brenan

#13. Necessity is literally the mother of invention.

Plato

#14. They say that necessity is the mother of invention, but it is also the grandmother of desperation.

Dean Koontz

#15. Progress comes by experiment, and this from ennui that leads to voyages, wars, revolutions, and plainly to change in the arts of expression; that cries out to the imagination, and is the nurse of the invention whereof we term necessity the mother.

Edmund Clarence Stedman

#16. The true creator is necessity, who is the mother of our invention.

Plato

#17. Necessity may well be called the mother of invention but calamity is the test of integrity.

Samuel Richardson

#18. Necessity is the mother of invention but boredom is the mother of doing bafflingly stupid shit.

Jenny Lawson

#19. Necessity may be mother of invention, but fun is the father.

Alex Faickney Osborn

#20. Because we imagine, we can have invention and technology. It's actually play, not necessity, that is the mother of invention.

Alison Gopnik

#21. Necessity used to be the mother of invention, but then we ran out of things that were necessary. The postmodern mother of invention is desire; we don't really "need" anything new, so we only create what we want.

Chuck Klosterman

#22. Jules Breton has spoken of the history of his life as being at the same time the genesis of his art. This is true of Nikola Tesla's evolution. His bent toward invention we may surely trace to his mother, who, as the wife of an eloquent clergyman in the Greek Church, made

Nikola Tesla

#23. If necessity is the Mother of Invention, than adversity must surely be the Father of Re-invention.

Johnny Flora

#24. And yet the true creator is necessity, which is the mother of invention.

Aristotle.

#25. Laziness is the mother of invention.

Darren Ashby

#26. There's a whole generation of young people who are faced with the so-called 'jobless recovery.' Necessity is the mother of invention. They are out there, all around the world, creating new companies.

Don Tapscott

#27. It's true that necessity is the mother of invention. But for those of us without fathers, there is a deeper truth - necessity is the mother of self-invention.

Michael Hainey

#28. Getting caught is the mother of invention.

Robert Byrne

#29. A guilty conscience is the mother of invention.

Carolyn Wells

#30. But desperation is the mother-in-law of invention.

Laura Marney

#31. Necessity might be the mother of invention, but restriction is the mother of efficiency.

Terry Gilliam

#32. Necessity may be the mother of invention, but play is certainly the father.

Roger Von Oech

#33. How true is that necessity is the mother of invention, how very true.

Yann Martel