Most of the tasks we do are for humans. For example, a tax calculation is counting numbers so the government can pull money out from my wallet, but government consists of humans. — Yukihiro Matsumoto Copy Share Image
It is not the responsibility of the language to force good looking code, but the language should make good looking code possible. — Yukihiro Matsumoto Copy Share Image
You want to enjoy life, don't you? If you get your job done quickly and your job is fun, that's good isn't it? That's… — Yukihiro Matsumoto Copy Share Image
I believe consistency and orthogonality are tools of design, not the primary goal in design. — Yukihiro Matsumoto Copy Share Image
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… — Yukihiro Matsumoto Copy Share Image
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… — Yukihiro Matsumoto Copy Share Image
The orthogonal features, when combined, can explode into complexity. — Yukihiro Matsumoto Copy Share Image
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… — Yukihiro Matsumoto Copy Share
Actually, I didn't make the claim that Ruby follows the principle of least surprise. Someone felt the design of Ruby follows that philosophy, so… — Yukihiro Matsumoto Copy Share Image
Ruby inherited the Perl philosophy of having more than one way to do the same thing. I inherited that philosophy from Larry Wall, who… — Yukihiro Matsumoto Copy Share Image
I hope to see Ruby help every programmer in the world to be productive, and to enjoy programming, and to be happy. That is… — Yukihiro Matsumoto Copy Share Image
From the viewpoint of what you can do, therefore, languages do differ - but the differences are limited. For example, Python and Ruby provide… — Yukihiro Matsumoto Copy Share Image
