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

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.

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.

Now I check myself in the mirror."Why do women do that?" he asks."What?""Look yourself down like there's some problem needs fixing. You're better than fine.

Luxury life is good if everyman living on earth can benefit from it! Otherwise, it is injustice!

Love is the bane of honor, the death of duty.

Doubt comes in at the window when inquiry is denied at the door.

I'm fond of kissing. It's part of my job. God sent me down to kiss a lot of people.

As a director, you can transform your vision more with the music.

I am strongly convinced that not only too much consciousness but even any consciousness at all is a sickness.

My life has changed, and I'm changing with it.

The quality of a man's life is in direct proportion to his commitment to excellence.