We are exactly where we have chosen to be.
The orthogonal features, when combined, can explode into complexity.
I believe that the purpose of life is, at least in part, to be happy. Based on this belief, Ruby is designed to make programming not only easy but also fun. It allows you to concentrate on the creative side of programming, with less stress.
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.
Smart people underestimate the ordinarity of ordinary people.
I didn't work hard to make Ruby perfect for everyone, because you feel differently from me. No language can be perfect for everyone. I tried to make Ruby perfect for me, but maybe it's not perfect for you. The perfect language for Guido van Rossum is probably Python.
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.
Height isn't something you can have and just let be, like nice teeth or naturally curly hair. People have this idea you have to put it to use, playing basketball, for example, or observing the weather up there. If you are a girl, they feel a particular need to point your height out to you, as if you might not have noticed.
Perfume is pretty good because nobody has to hold the product by their face or use it.
You're not going to make Hemingway better by adding animations.
Sometimes, the only way to discover who we are, is by figuring out who we are not.