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

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

I didn't work hard to make Ruby perfect for everyone, because you feel differently from me. No language can be perfect for everyone. I tried to make Ruby perfect for me, but maybe it's not perfect for you. The perfect language for Guido van Rossum is probably Python.

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

Language designers want to design the perfect language. They want to be able to say, 'My language is perfect. It can do everything.' But it's just plain impossible to design a perfect language, because there are two ways to look at a language. One way is by looking at what can be done with that language. The other is by looking at how we feel using that language-how we feel while programming.

Smart people underestimate the ordinarity of ordinary people.

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