A maxim used to explain such things as

(Here failure and success mean market penetration (Adoption Life Cycle) or mindshare.)

Some varying key points

Most often associated with Jamie Zawinski, but he got it from Richard PGabriel.

Victor Lombardi points to Clay Shirky piece in praise of evolvable systems - Iterat Ive is good

one approach toward Disruptive Innovation?

This doesn't mean that everything that seems worse is actually better, of course! Perl Sucks, and so does Yo Mama.

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