English history is aristocracy with the doors open. Who has courage and faculty, let him come in.
Smart people underestimate the ordinarity of ordinary people.
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.
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.
Language designers want to design the perfect language. They want to be able to say, 'My language is perfect. It can do everything. ' But it's just plain impossible to design a perfect language, because there are two ways to look at a language. One way is by looking at what can be done with that language. The other is by looking at how we feel using that language-how we feel while programming.
I love creating images, of course, because I'm an artist.
Sir, I wish to understand the true principles of the Government. I wish them carried out. I ask nothing more.
With this ego arises all the problems, the thousand and one problems. This ego will not allow you to fall in love and millions of problems will arise in your life. This ego would like everybody to surrender to you; this ego will not allow you to surrender to anybody - and love happens only when you surrender. When you force somebody to surrender, it is hate, destruction, it is not love.
I've been grateful for what comes along.