If we do these things, innovations will come: Necessity is the mother of invention.
Obesity may, nevertheless, still turn out to be the mother of invention.
Necessity is the mother of invention, or so the old English saying goes, but so is inconvenience and the irritation that stems from it.
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Prisoners live the old adage that necessity is the mother of invention, and they are living proof that great inspiration depends on some desperation.
Necessity is the mother of invention.
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Certainly a number inherited but others all or most of their own luck and wealth in everything from fashion to sporting goods to flooring to Chinese restaurants, proving once again that ingenuity is the mother of invention, and an essential ingredient to making our list.
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Then again, it is also said that necessity is the mother of all invention (and desperation its father?), so perhaps current-account-deficit nations will find the product innovations or the labor productivity gains that can lead to growing the market for their tradable products.
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The Mesir Macunu festival of Manisa, Turkey, commemorates the recovery of Hafsa Sultan, mother of Suleiman the Magnificent, who was cured of a disease by the invention of a paste known as mesir macunu.
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