3 Larry Wall Quotes on Innovation

Larry Wall quotes on innovation

84. Life gets boring, someone invents another necessity, and once again we turn the crank on the screwjack of progress hoping that nobody gets screwed.

104. Part of language design is perturbing the proposed feature in various directions to see how it might generalize in the future.

160. The way these things go, there are probably 6 or 8 kludgey ways to do it, and a better way that involves rethinking something that hasn't been rethunk yet.