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

Smart people underestimate the ordinarity of ordinary people.

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.

Often people, especially computer engineers, focus on the machines. But in fact we need to focus on humans, on how humans care about doing programming or operating the application of the machines.

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

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

From the viewpoint of what you can do, therefore, languages do differ - but the differences are limited. For example, Python and Ruby provide almost the same power to the programmer.

I believe consistency and orthogonality are tools of design, not the primary goal in design.

Guilt: it comes in so many subtle forms. It's carbon monoxide for the soul.

Music is all about transporting people, speaking a language which languages fail to express.

Putin's an egomaniac, so there are two ways he can process his ego mania. He can say, "Oh, I stood up to the U.S.," or, "Hey, I'm essential to the world order."

To explore what it would mean to live fully, sensually alive and passionately on purpose, I have to drop my preconceived ideas of who and what I am.

I live a sensible life. You know, I don't take on too much.

Whoever said life without love isn't worth living didn't own an iPhone. These things are great.

You are on your own in a big world, in which you are one of many nations, some small, some medium sized, some large. You are nobody's boss and nobody is your boss.

A girl told me my lips looked like somebody had pressed strawberry yogurt against my face.

In this life, you have to risk big to win big.

In real life, I always look at people and how they walk, or how they carry themselves. I think about the body a lot, in performance.