Is The Mother Of Invention Quotes

#1. Poverty is the mother of invention

Sunday Adelaja

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

Yann Martel

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

Carolyn Wells

#4. Getting caught is the mother of invention.

Robert Byrne

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. Laziness is the mother of invention.

Darren Ashby

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

Aristotle.

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

Johnny Flora

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

Jenny Lawson

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

Dean Koontz

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

Gerald Brenan

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

Anonymous

#14. 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

#15. 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

#16. 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

#17. 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

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

Alison Gopnik

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

Roger Von Oech

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

Terry Gilliam

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

Laura Marney

#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. 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

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

Alex Faickney Osborn

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

Samuel Richardson

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

Plato

#27. 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

#28. Necessity is literally the mother of invention.

Plato

#29. Invention is the mother of necessity.

Thorstein Veblen

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

S. Hussain Zaidi

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

Victor Hugo

#32. Necessity is the mother of all invention.

Albert Einstein

#33. 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