Mother Of Invention Quotes & Sayings

The cab rattled, jingled, jolted; in fact, the last was quite extraordinary. By its disproportionate violence and magnitude it obliterated every sensation of onward movement; and the effect was of being shaken in a stationary apparatus like a mediaeval device for the punishment of crime, or some very newfangled invention for the cure of a sluggish liver. It was extremely distressing; and the raising of Mrs Verloc's mother's voice sounded like a wail of pain. — Joseph Conrad

Necessity is not the mother of invention. Knowledge and experiment are its parents. It sometimes happens that successful search is made for unknown materials to fill well-recognized and predetermined requirements. It more often happens that the acquirement of knowledge of the previously unknown properties of a material suggests its trial for some new use. These facts strongly indicate the value of knowledge of properties of materials and indicate a way for research. — Willis R. Whitney

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

This is a very bad book you're writing," I said to myself behind my leaks.

"I know," I said.

"You're afraid you'll kill yourself the way your mother did," I said.

"I know," I said.

There in the cocktail lounge, peering out through my leaks at a world of my own invention, I mouthed this word: schizophrenia. The sound and appearance of the word had fascinated me for many years. It sounded and looked to me like a human being sneezing in a blizzard of soapflakes. — Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

A guilty conscience is the mother of invention. — Carolyn Wells

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

Necessity, they say, is the mother of invention, but fear too, is not barren of ingenious suggestions."
"Nice little saloon, isn't it" I said, as if noticing it for the first time.
"At noon I gave no orders for change of course, and the mates whiskers grew much concerned and seemed to be offering themselves to my unduly notice. — Joseph Conrad

Invention is the mother of necessity. — Thorstein Veblen

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

Necessity, the mother of invention. — George Farquhar

The true creator is necessity, who is the mother of our invention. — Plato

They say that necessity is the mother of invention, but it is also the grandmother of desperation. — Dean Koontz

Necessity, mother of invention. — William Wycherley

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

As Napoleon Hill said, necessity may be the mother of invention but it is also the father of crime. — S. Hussain Zaidi

Envy, it was often said among shicts, was the mother of human invention, — Sam Sykes

Necessity may well be called the mother of invention but calamity is the test of integrity. — Samuel Richardson

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

Poverty is the mother of invention — Sunday Adelaja

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

Necessity may be mother of invention, but fun is the father. — Alex Faickney Osborn

Necessity is literally the mother of invention. — Plato

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

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

On Christmas Eve, my mother and I and Teddy and Anita went to Mass together. The shadowy church was lit only by an overhead light trained on the altar and by the flames of hundreds of flickering candles in glass cups set all around the nave. If you squinted, the columns and vaults seemed to melt away, all the grandness of the architecture receded, and the space became intimate, almost as if you were cast back many centuries to a humble place where a miracle had occurred, where the radiance issued not from candles but from the air itself, back to a less hectic era before the invention of clocks, to a night of peace from which a renewed world would then begin to date itself. — Dean Koontz

How true is that necessity is the mother of invention, how very true. — Yann Martel

Necessity might be the mother of invention, but restriction is the mother of efficiency. — Terry Gilliam

If necessity is the Mother of Invention, than adversity must surely be the Father of Re-invention. — Johnny Flora

A bad memory is the mother of invention. — Gerald Brenan

The girls put their wits to work, and - necessity being the mother of invention - made whatever they needed. — Louisa May Alcott

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

Necessity is the mother of invention but boredom is the mother of doing bafflingly stupid shit. — Jenny Lawson

Necessity is the mother of all invention. — Albert Einstein

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

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

Necessity, they say, is mother of invention, but fear, too, is not barren of ingenious suggestions. — Joseph Conrad

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

Necessity may be the mother of invention, but play is certainly the father. — Roger Von Oech

And yet the true creator is necessity, which is the mother of invention. — Aristotle.

Getting caught is the mother of invention. — Robert Byrne

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

But desperation is the mother-in-law of invention. — Laura Marney

Laziness is the mother of invention. — Darren Ashby

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

Economic necessity should be the mother of educational invention — Andy Hargreaves

Gutenberg's invention of printing is the greatest event-the mother of revolution — Victor Hugo

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

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

We had to be our own mothers of invention, in many senses of the word. — June Millington

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

Lord Peter Wimsey: Facts, Bunter, must have facts. When I was a small boy, I always hated facts. Thought they were nasty, hard things, all nobs.
Mervyn Bunter: Yes, my lord. My old mother always used to say ...
Lord Peter Wimsey: Your mother, Bunter? Oh, I never knew you had one. I always thought you just sort of came along already-made, so it were. Oh, excuse me. How infernally rude of me. Beg pardon, I'm sure.
Mervyn Bunter: That's all right, my lord.
Lord Peter Wimsey: Thank you.
Mervyn Bunter: Yes indeed, I was one of seven.
Lord Peter Wimsey: That is pure invention, Bunter, I know better. You are unique. But you were going to tell me about your mater.
Mervyn Bunter: Oh yes, my lord. My old mother always used to say that facts are like cows. If you stare them in the face hard enough, and they generally run away.
Lord Peter Wimsey: By Jove, that's courageous, Bunter. What a splendid person she must be.
Mervyn Bunter: I think so, my lord. — Dorothy L. Sayers

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