"Avoid success at all costs." I mentioned this at a talk I gave about Haskell a few years back and it’s become quite widely quoted. When a language becomes too

"Avoid success at all costs." I mentioned this at a talk I gave about Haskell a few years back and it’s become quite widely quoted. When a language becomes too well known, or too widely used and too successful suddenly you can’t change anything anymore. You get caught and spend ages talking about things that have nothing to do with the research side of things. Success is great, but it comes at a price. -- Simon Peyton Jones