Quotes About Innovation

Invention is the mother of necessities.

The mother of useful arts is necessity; that of the fine arts is luxury. For father the former has intellect; the latter genius, which itself is a kind of luxury.

Frustration is the mother of risk.

If necessity is the mother of invention, scientifically developed production is the mother of scientific research.

Truth is the nursing mother of genius. No man can be absolutely true to himself, eschewing cant, compromise, servile imitation, and complaisance without becoming original.

Poverty is the step-mother of genius.

My mother refused to give me coloring books as a child. She probably saved me, Because when you think about it, what a coloring book does is completely kill creativity.

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.

My mother had a rule, obviously, that I couldn't go across the street by myself, but I had to find a way of doing it.

Progress is the mother of all problems.

Experiment is the mother of knowledge.

Genius is the father of a heavenly line, but the mortal mother, that is industry.

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

The mother of invention in music is necessity, not Frank Zappa!

Boredom, not the will, is the mother of change. Necessity is the father.

I remember mother saying : Inventors are like poets, a trashy lot

Necessity is often the mother of balls

In a lot of ways I was a generation ahead of my generation; I had a working mother wheneveryone else's mother was staying at home.

If necessity is the mother of invention, then dissatisfaction must be its father.

I thought boxes were the best toy. When my parents got a new car, I ran to my mother and said, 'Did it come in a box?'

You don't learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.

A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.