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“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.”

People World Whole Young Mother Company Generations Creating Invention Recovery Around The World Jobless New Company Necessity Is The Mother Of Invention

Author:Don Tapscott

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

Has Beens School Mother Difficulty Invention Facility

Book:Self-help; with illustrations of character and conduct

Source: Self-help; with illustrations of character and conduct

“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.”

Knows Years Mean Mother Growing Up Growing Fans Listening Invention Frank Arkansas Zappa

Author:Billy Bob Thornton

“Necessity may be the mother of lucrative invention, but it is the death of poetical invention.”

May Mother Invention

Book:Essays on men and manners; with aphorisms, criticisms, impromptus, fragments, etc

Source: Essays on men and manners; with aphorisms, criticisms, impromptus, fragments, etc

“Necessity is the mother of invention. I love solving things like that. Because there wasn't enough memory, thinking of an economical way to make the movements look right was like solving a puzzle, and I had a lot of fun.”

Thinking Way Looks Enough Mother Fun Memories Movement Invention Puzzles Necessity Is The Mother Of Invention

Author:Shigeru Miyamoto

“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.”

Art War Mother Term Imagination Progress Cry Expression Revolution Experiments Invention Nurse Voyages Ennui

Book:Poets of America

Source: Poets of America

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

Ifs Knows Mother Anger Invention Fury

Book:Moving Beyond Words: Essays on Age, Rage, Sex, Power, Money, Muscles: Breaking the Boundaries of Gender

Source: Moving Beyond Words: Essays on Age, Rage, Sex, Power, Money, Muscles: Breaking the Boundaries of Gender

“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).”

Ifs Writing Children Ideas Feelings Mother Wish Development Importance Insight Invention Description Lasting Infant

Author:Sandra Scarr

“The so-called ‘crank’ may be quite original in his ideas. … Invention, however, in the engineering sense involves originality; but not that alone, if the results are to be of value. There is imagination more or less fertile, but with it a knowledge of what has been done before, carried perhaps by the memory, together with a sense of the present or prospective needs in art or industry. Necessity is not always the mother of invention. It may be prevision.”

Ifs Needs May Has Beens Art Ideas Done Together Mother Values Imagination Memories Results Industry Originals Invention Originality Engineering Fertile Crank Prevision

Author:Elihu Thomson