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

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.

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

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.

To work properly as A.I.... - I should have doubt... and contradictory in my code....

Scatter joy!

...don’t discount intuition. It holds more wisdom than technology can ever afford

But most dragons seem to have interesting personalities--besides probably having quite good reasons for what they do, if only one could understand them

There's something about that blind trust between Timbaland and me - two people that have almost nothing in common except for a love of music - that is really rejuvenating.

When it gets into these spikes, with shortages and uproar and so forth, people go bananas, but that's capitalism.

There's always the new wrinkle. One must keep one's eyes always open.

Nothing can be more hurtful to the service, than the neglect of discipline; for that discipline, more than numbers, gives one army the superiority over another.

I believe that in this generation those with the courage to enter the conflict will find themselves with companions in every corner of the world.

The sun is a-wait at the ponderous gate of the West.