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

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.

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.

You can never know who you really are or what you can do until you discover yourself

When you have the world on your shoulders, God alone can help you carry it.

If they say "you have your last chance to look at the world", I wish that look would from Çamlıca of Istanbul.

Education brings about opportunity, and in turn inspiration.

Is it my business if somebody wants to burn a flag?...No, it's not...That's called logic and it'll help us all evolve.

Death is the monster we all fear, yet with each day, we walk toward it, and can't help doing so; we can't help but walk toward the one thing we're most trying to avoid.

One of my concerns is that the health care not be as good as it can possibly be.

There’s nothing that you can sell me that can make me happy.

With this ranking system, the more you play, the better off you are.

As artists, we bear the charge of signalling, guiding, communicating and inspiriting change.