A Quote by David Rockefeller
If necessity is the mother of invention, discontent is the father of progress.
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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.
If necessity is the mother of invention, conflict is its father.
Necessity may be mother of invention, but fun is the father.
Necessity may be the mother of invention, but play is certainly the father.
Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
If necessity is the mother of invention, it's the father of cooperation. And we're cooperating like never before.
Inventive genius requires pleasurable mental activity as a condition for its vigorous exercise. "Necessity is the mother of invention" is a silly proverb. "Necessity is the mother of futile dodges" is much closer to the truth. The basis of growth of modern invention is science, and science is almost wholly the outgrowth of pleasurable intellectual curiosity.
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.
If necessity is the mother of invention, urgency is the uncle of change. Without it, progress slows and then stops and then reverses.
Discontent is the first necessity of progress.
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.
Because we imagine, we can have invention and technology. It's actually play, not necessity, that is the mother of invention.
Necessity may be the mother of lucrative invention, but it is the death of poetical invention.
We say that necessity is the mother of invention, and no country has more of a necessity to develop clean power than China.
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.
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.
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