“The history of finance is the history of sales. There are lots of great ideas, it’s not until someone pays enough to attract aggressive sales people that the ideas bear fruit.” —Aaron Brown, “A Wall Street Rocket Scientist
in King Arthur’s Court” https://storage.googleapis.com/wzukusers/user-28782334/documents/595d1aaba9c67K1RvYqt/Rocket%20Scientist%20in%20King%20Arthurs%20Court%20200507.pdf
Eerily applicable to programming languages and styles, among no doubt many, many other things.
@ab1 The MusicLab experiment revealed a big part of the answer I think: https://mobile.nytimes.com/2007/04/15/magazine/15wwlnidealab.t.html (ignore the goofy title though and let me know if it answers any questions)
“It’s not unreasonable to hope that such a world would be peaceful, just, tolerant and prosperous… Could this really happen? Could we use modern quantitative ideas to make the Dark Ages financially secure without technological progress or force of arms or great political ideas? I think it’s possible. I don’t underestimate the practical problems. I would give long odds against any individual succeeding. But I think the ideas have real power, and could be explained to people in the sixth century.”
@22 very interesting perspective. I wonder a lot of times why some ideas just kick up a storm and others (even though they're incredible and/or better than the popular ones) don't get their fair share of attention.