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.

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.

Wholeness is birthed through vulnerability and sensitivity, which is often conceived in brokenness. Jesus taught me this.

The main outcomes of your life can only resemble your frequent thoughts, decisions and actions.

I believe that the purpose of life is to glorify God.

If your home is peaceful, then you're going to go out in your day peacefully.

The key to successful aging is...to pay as little attention to it as possible.

In the face of such hopelessness as our eventual, unavoidable death, there is little sense in not at least trying to accomplish all of your wildest dreams in life.

All of my books began as sermons, so really the heart of the message is still the same.

I think helped our players in terms of being able to fight through some adversity along the way.

Corollary 1: The existence of immense quantities of trash in science fiction is admitted and it is regrettable; but it is no more unnatural than the existence of trash anywhere.

I that in heill wes and gladnes Am trublit now with gret seiknes And feblit with infermite: Timor Mortis conturbat me.* * Fear of Death troubles me.