From the viewpoint of what you can do, therefore, languages do differ - but the differences are limited. For example, Python and Ruby provide almost the same power to the programmer.

Smart people underestimate the ordinarity of ordinary people.

I hope to see Ruby help every programmer in the world to be productive, and to enjoy programming, and to be happy. That is the primary purpose of Ruby language.

Man is driven to create; I know I really love to create things. And while I'm not good at painting, drawing, or music, I can write software.

Often people, especially computer engineers, focus on the machines. But in fact we need to focus on humans, on how humans care about doing programming or operating the application of the machines.

It is not the responsibility of the language to force good looking code, but the language should make good looking code possible.

Plant a memory, plant a tree, do it today for tomorrow.

The orthogonal features, when combined, can explode into complexity.

I believe consistency and orthogonality are tools of design, not the primary goal in design.

Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.

Writer's Block is just an excuse by people who don't write for not writing.

When I grow up I want to be an old woman.

Silence can always be broken by the sound
Of footsteps walking over frozen groundIn winter when the melancholy treesStand abject and let their branches freeze

God knows I am not too hippy. Perhaps because I am too much around the hip and I fear fads for, like anybody else, I like something that tends to last.

I was always extremely curious about why people did the things they do.

In some ways, you can say that at any time in any writer's career: 'He might have run out of ideas.'

Master and Doctor are my titles; for ten years now, without repose, I held my erudite recitals and led my pupils by the nose.

Vice gets more in this vicious world than piety.

That which is provable, ought not to be believed in science without proof.