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Plato's Republic says "our need will be the real creator", [5] which Jowett's 1894 translation rendered loosely as "The true creator is necessity, who is the mother of our invention." [6] The connection of mother and necessity is documented in Latin and in English in the 16th century: William Horman quoted the Latin phrase Mater artium ...
(Boserup, E. 1965. p 13) [2] A major point of her book is that "necessity is the mother of invention". Her other major work, Woman's Role in Economic Development , explored the allocation of tasks between men and women, and inaugurated decades of subsequent work connecting issues of gender to those of economic development, pointing out that ...
Other tellers of the story stress the crow's persistence. In Francis Barlow's edition the proverb 'Necessity is the mother of invention' is applied to the story [5] while an early 20th-century retelling quotes the proverb 'Where there's a will, there's a way'. [6]
Record executives demanded the name be changed again, and so, "out of necessity", Zappa later said, "We became the Mothers of Invention", referencing the proverb "Necessity is the mother of invention." After early struggles, the Mothers enjoyed substantial popular commercial success.
Invention is the mother of necessity. Technology comes in packages, big and small. Although technology might be a prime element in many public issues, nontechnical factors take precedence in technology-policy decisions. All history is relevant, but the history of technology is the most relevant.
The following is a list of people who are considered a "father" or "mother" (or "founding father" or "founding mother") of a scientific field.Such people are generally regarded to have made the first significant contributions to and/or delineation of that field; they may also be seen as "a" rather than "the" father or mother of the field.
Brandeis also denied that large trusts were more efficient than the smaller firms driven out of business. He argued the opposite was often true: that monopolistic enterprises became "less innovative" because, he wrote, their "secure positions freed them from the necessity which has always been the mother of invention."
Invention: The Care and Feeding of Ideas is a 1993 book by the computer scientist, mathematician and philosopher Norbert Wiener. [1] Norbert Wiener in 1964. Invention was written in 1954 but Wiener abandoned the project at the editing stage and returned his advance. MIT Press published it posthumously in 1993, with an introduction by Steve ...