He has received multiple award nominations for his film performances and has received a star on th Matthew Paige Matt Damon is an American actor, writer, and philanthropist whose career was launched following the success of the film Good Will Hunting, from a screenplay he co-wrote with friend Ben Affleck.e has received multiple award nominations for his film performances and has received a star on th Matthew Paige Matt Damon is an American actor, writer, and philanthropist whose career was launched following the success of the film Good Will Hunting, from a screenplay he co-wrote with friend Ben Affleck.
Grace Murray Hopper: Laziness is the Mother of Invention. Laziness is the Mother of Invention. Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper '28 is best known for the invention of the compiler, the intermediate program that translates English language instructions into the language of the target computer.
When entrepreneurs used his invention to play music, Edison thought it was a debasement of his idea. Our widespread misunderstanding of inventors as setting out to solve society's problems causes us to say that necessity is the mother of invention. Actually, invention is the mother of necessity, by creating needs that we never felt before. (Be honest: did you really feel a need for your Walkman CD player long before it existed?) Far from welcoming solutions to our supposed needs, society's entrenched interests commonly resist inventions.