I looked up the exact quote and it was "The enemy of art is the absence of limitations" from Orson Wells, which was probably conflated with "Necessity is the mother of invention" from Aesop's Fables?
@swarmforge.bsky.socialThis week, playing around with limiting the number of distinct Upgrades you can buy in a run. As Matt declared, "limitations are the something something of creativity."
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