Necessity Invention Quotes

#1. Any actor, any playwright who's worked a life in the theater knows how to do things cheaply and quickly. It's just all by necessity. Invention is everything.

Israel Horovitz

#2. Necessity, the mother of invention.

George Farquhar

#3. One of the hardest conditions of boyhood is the almost continuous strain put upon the powers of invention by the constant and harassing necessity for explanations of every natural act.

Booth Tarkington

#4. 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

#5. 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

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

Plato

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

Samuel Richardson

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

Joseph Conrad

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

Jenny Lawson

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

Alex Faickney Osborn

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

Alison Gopnik

#12. 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

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

Johnny Flora

#14. In primitive society, man produced directly for the satisfaction of his own wants, but with the development of society came differentiation of function; exchange and barter arose, various trades sprang up, and with the necessity of commercial intercourse came the invention of money.

Charles A. Beard

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

Aristotle.

#16. Sheer necessity,-the proper parent of an art so nearly allied to invention.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

#17. 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

#18. 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

#19. Necessity first mothered invention. Now invention has little ones of her own, and they look just like grandma.

E.B. White

#20. Poverty is the origin of invention

Sunday Adelaja

#21. Necessity starves on the stoop of invention.

Theodore Roethke

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

Terry Gilliam

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

Roger Von Oech

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

Yann Martel

#25. Necessity, mother of invention.

William Wycherley

#26. 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

#27. Necessity is not merely the father of invention; it is the father of courage.

Michael Josephson

#28. We are kept keen on the grindstone of pain and necessity.

H.G.Wells

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

Gloria Steinem

#30. 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

#31. Mothers are a biological necessity; fathers are a social invention

Margaret Mead

#32. 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

#33. War is only an invention, not a biological necessity.

Margaret Mead

#34. Poverty is the mother of invention

Sunday Adelaja

#35. Necessity is the mother of all invention.

Albert Einstein

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

Louisa May Alcott

#37. Mothers are the necessity of invention.

Bill Watterson

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

Dean Koontz

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

S. Hussain Zaidi

#40. Necessity
thou best of peacemakers, As well as surest prompter of invention.

Walter Scott

#41. Necessity is the motherfucker of invention.

Christopher Buckley

#42. 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

#43. Invention is the mother of necessity.

Thorstein Veblen

#44. 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

#45. Nature is the source of all true knowledge. She has her own logic, her own laws, she has no effect without cause nor invention without necessity.

Leonardo Da Vinci

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

Anonymous

#47. Necessity is literally the mother of invention.

Plato

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

Andy Hargreaves