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.

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

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

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

I believe that the purpose of life is, at least in part, to be happy. Based on this belief, Ruby is designed to make programming not only easy but also fun. It allows you to concentrate on the creative side of programming, with less stress.

Smart people underestimate the ordinarity of ordinary people.