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. Necessity, mother of invention.

William Wycherley

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

Yann Martel

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

Roger Von Oech

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

Terry Gilliam

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

Carolyn Wells

#7. Getting caught is the mother of invention.

Robert Byrne

#8. 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

#9. 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

#10. Laziness is the mother of invention.

Darren Ashby

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

Aristotle.

#12. Necessity, the mother of invention.

George Farquhar

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

Johnny Flora

#14. 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

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

Alison Gopnik

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

Alex Faickney Osborn

#17. Necessity, they say, is mother of invention, but fear, too, is not barren of ingenious suggestions.

Joseph Conrad

#18. I don't know if fury can compete with necessity as the mother of invention, but I recommend it.

Gloria Steinem

#19. Necessity, oftener than facility, has been the mother of invention; and the most prolific school of all has been the school of difficulty.

Samuel Smiles

#20. Poverty is the mother of invention

Sunday Adelaja

#21. The girls put their wits to work, and - necessity being the mother of invention - made whatever they needed.

Louisa May Alcott

#22. 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

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

S. Hussain Zaidi

#24. 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

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

Anonymous

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

Gerald Brenan

#27. Necessity is literally the mother of invention.

Plato

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

Dean Koontz

#29. Remakes, in general, are a result of necessity being the mother of invention. They can't open movies consistently and break through the advertising clutter that's out there.

John Carpenter

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

Samuel Richardson

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

Jenny Lawson

#32. 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

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

Laura Marney

#34. 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

#35. Mother Nature's no dingbat. She didn't package the good stuff with bad stuff so she could watch us struggle for thousands of years until the invention of Egg Beaters.

Liz Wolfe

#36. We had to be our own mothers of invention, in many senses of the word.

June Millington

#37. Envy, it was often said among shicts, was the mother of human invention,

Sam Sykes

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

Plato

#39. 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

#40. Economic necessity should be the mother of educational invention

Andy Hargreaves

#41. Invention is the mother of necessity.

Thorstein Veblen

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

Victor Hugo

#43. Necessity is the mother of all invention.

Albert Einstein

#44. As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm.

Tanith Lee

#45. When I was growing up, when I was 11 years old I was listening to The Mothers of Invention. You know, I mean I was a Frank Zappa fan in Arkansas.

Billy Bob Thornton

#46. 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