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.
The frontispiece of the reprint states that the original was  writ in the year 1658 . It contains this: Art imitates Nature, and Necessity is the Mother of Invention. 1658 seems the best date we have as the birth of the phrase in English. Frank Zappa gave this phrase an extra lease of life when he chose the name of his inventive jazz/rock band in 1964 - The Mothers of Invention.