"Necessity is the mother of invention"?

Is necessity really the mother of invention? Maybe not according to a book I am currently reading, "Guns, Germs, and Steel." It shows that most inventions are created and then a need is found for them. So before there may have been no need for a new invention but because it was made it created a necessity. So now I am thinking of using the term "invention is the mother of necessity" more often. It just seems to work.

You may have noticed that I have a thing for quotes. Well, I do. I love quotes that are nice, funny, or insightful. Some times on Twitter I end up tweeting nothing but long strings of quotations from various places, although I must admit I do not often know who they are quoting. I hope to be quote worthy some day, but I have a feeling the source of my quotes may fall into the same obscurity. Right now I would love for people to remember and spread this quote from me: "Life: often contains random moments of brilliance" which I have been using ever since it popped into my head while talking to my boyfriend once. Now it was the inspiration for the name of this blog.

On the topic of quotes, one of my favorites is actually oddly ironic. One of my favorite authors, John Green, said in one of this vlogs (youtube.com/vlogbrothers) that "text means nothing without it's context" when talking about a quote from one of his books that went viral, but out of context. I find this to hold true, but I still have a strange love of quotes. It makes me wonder how many of these sweet, romantic quotes I run across are actually completely out of context. Maybe a quote I thought was about love came from a book about how love is horrible and you'll only get misfortune from falling in love.

One of my favorite quotes (that appeared in a earlier blog post) I do happen to know the source and context of. In fact, it came from the only poem I have ever memorized completely, other than Jellyfish Stew by Jack Prelutsky. That poem is "since feeling is first" by e.e. cummings. I love the poem and my favorite quote from that poem (which just happened to be introduced to me through another of John Green's videos) is "the best gesture of my brain is less than your eye lids flutter, which says we are for each other." When falling love, quotes like this really stuck with me.

And to end this quote edition of this blog, here's a quote!

"Of course it has been happening inside your mind, Harry, but why on Earth should that mean it isn't real?" -Albus Dumbledore "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows"