Larry Wall Quotes

We do not need more status quo.

Understanding the importance of evolving is very important. Reinventing is very important. To break what you have already done is very important. That growth should never stop.

I've never believed that Things Should Continue As They Are.

To innovate is not to reform.

When you're finished changing, you're finished.

Without change there is no innovation, creativity, or incentive for improvement. Those who initiate change will have a better opportunity to manage the change that is inevitable.

The price of doing the same old thing is higher than the price of change.

We have shaken things up when necessary.

We have to change.

I wonder why progress looks so much like destruction.

If you don’t actively reform, you will passively get reformed.

If you don't change and mix things up, you're going to get run over. One of the things we preach is change, change, change.

Innovation is kind of a sub-piece of change.

Every 10 years the game changes.

I'm not going to be the one who turns out the last lights of the last conglomerate. So we need to reinvent ourselves all the time.

We've got to change the way we do things.

I feel very strongly that change is good because it stirs up the system.

At least at first, the new thing is rarely as good as the old thing was. If you need the alternative to be better than the status quo from the very start, you'll never begin.

I have an almost complete disregard of precedent, and a faith in the possibility of something better. It irritates me to be told how things have always been done. I defy the tyranny of precedent. I go for anything new that might improve the past.

You have to be damn certain you're putting something better in its place.

We all know that change is inevitable. It provides us with a challenge and an opportunity to grow and improve and to attract new members with new ideas.

My new motto is: When you're through changing, you're through.

Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.

When you are through changing, you are through.

Nobody sets out to break new ground. I think change comes when people have no other choice.