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

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.

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.

Take charge of your life and multiply it. Be in control of your life and your time.

It was important to me to make a film where I don't show the past but where the spectators can see the past.

The French have a saying that whatever excellence a man may exhibit in a public station he is very apt to be ridiculous in a private one.

Nobody can ask us to abjure our fascist roots.

I've been half-frozen for so long, it is as though the winter has set up home in my marrow.

It is always the start that requires the greatest effort.

You know what a woman's curiosity is.

There are three things in speech that ought to be considered before some things are spoken--the manner, the place and the time.

Most of the media bullshit you about who they are. We don’t. We’re not programming to conservatives, we’re just not eliminating their point of view.

America is interested in change and reform in the Middle East but in a stable way.