Python is an experiment in how much freedom programmers need. Too much freedom and nobody can read another's code; too little and expressiveness is endangered.

If you decide to design your own language, there are thousands of sort of amateur language designer pitfalls.

Don't you hate code that's not properly indented? Making it [indenting] part of the syntax guarantees that all code is properly indented.

I have this hope that there is a better way. Higher-level tools that actually let you see the structure of the software more clearly will be of tremendous value.

My own perception of that is somewhat colored by where people ask my advice, which is still, of course, about changes to Python internals or at least standard libraries.

Mark Hammond is working in this area, with Windows Scripting Host. It is definitely an area where Python fits almost perfectly. That's quite independent from Java, actually.

Modern programs must handle Unicode —Python has excellent support for Unicode, and will keep getting better.

we are waiting and waiting and doing nothing, until it is too late, and they commit crimes so serious that all society wants to do is punish instead of rehabilitate.

One or two steps alone do not guarantee the evidence of your success unless you have your own peculiar definition for success. And I assure you

Can I love someone...and still think/fly? Love is flying, sown, floating. Thought is solitary flight, beating wings.

Cancer is WAY too serious to be taken seriously all the time.

I think there's probably a God-shaped hole in everybody's being. Even if God only exists in people's minds, He's still a force.

I need to make sure that I'm taking roles that I feel like I can communicate through.

A Conspiracy of silence speaks louder than words.

I would go see local bands play, and noticed how many girls were there to see the band, and that's what inspired me.

The company's most urgent task is to learn to welcome, beg for, demand - innovation from everyone.

Big Bang Theory' is not my kind of show. It's not my humor. I don't like multicam comedies. I don't want an audience to tell me when to laugh.