Necessity, the mother of invention.
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Love in a Wood (1671), Act III, scene 3. (This was already a common proverb before Wycherley, cf. Invention, Necessity.)William Wycherley
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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
Invention is the mother of necessity.
Thorstein Veblen
Necessity is the mother of invention.
Plato
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