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.

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.

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.

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

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.

You don’t get lucky without preparation, and there’s no sense in being prepared if you’re not open to the possibility of a glorious accident.

It is not wise to think of people as either friends or enemies as if you were the center of the universe

A transformation often needs to break down the outdated rules, and a transaction is following the rules.

Science is built of facts the way a house is built of bricks but an accumulation of facts is no more science than a pile of bricks is a house.

I think the older you get, the more you know about life, and the more you learn about yourself and you become comfortable in your own skin. So the older I'm getting, the more fun I'm having.

Kiss is like a smell in a paper bag, they just never go away

She sounded as though love were an unfortunate but unavoidable condition.

Learn from everyone, copy no one.

There is many a thing which the world calls disappointment; but there is no such thing in the dictionary of faith. What to others are disappointments are to believers intimations of the will of God.

one gud thing abut music if hits u fell no pain :p <3