Quotes About Necessity Is The Mother Of Invention

#1. 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

#2. 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

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

Yann Martel

#4. 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

#5. 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

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

Johnny Flora

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

Jenny Lawson

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

Dean Koontz

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

Anonymous

#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. 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

#12. Necessity, mother of invention.

William Wycherley

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

Roger Von Oech

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

Terry Gilliam

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

Aristotle.

#16. Necessity, the mother of invention.

George Farquhar

#17. 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

#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 mother of invention, but fun is the father.

Alex Faickney Osborn

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

Joseph Conrad

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

Samuel Richardson

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

Plato

#23. 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

#24. 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

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

Andy Hargreaves

#26. Necessity is literally the mother of invention.

Plato

#27. Invention is the mother of necessity.

Thorstein Veblen

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

S. Hussain Zaidi

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

Louisa May Alcott

#30. Necessity is the mother of all invention.

Albert Einstein

#31. Poverty is the mother of invention

Sunday Adelaja

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

Margaret Mead

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

Gloria Steinem