Invention is the mother of necessity.
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This quote is a play on the ancient maxim that "necessity is the mother of invention"; it means that new inventions quickly become necessities to societies that adopt them.Thorstein Veblen
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Necessity may be the mother of lucrative invention, but it is the death of poetical invention.
William Shenstone
I don't think necessity is the mother of invention — invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble.
Agatha Christie
Necessity, the mother of invention.
William Wycherley
Necessity, the mother of invention.
George Farquhar
Necessity is the mother of invention.
Plato
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