Yukihiro Matsumoto

Plant a memory, plant a tree, do it today for tomorrow.

— Yukihiro Matsumoto

It is not the responsibility of the language to force good looking code, but the language should make good looking code possible.

— Yukihiro Matsumoto

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…

— Yukihiro Matsumoto

I believe consistency and orthogonality are tools of design, not the primary goal in design.

— Yukihiro Matsumoto

I didn't work hard to make Ruby perfect for everyone, because you feel differently from me. No language can be perfect for…

— Yukihiro Matsumoto

Man is driven to create; I know I really love to create things. And while I'm not good at painting, drawing, or…

— Yukihiro Matsumoto

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

— Yukihiro Matsumoto

Language designers want to design the perfect language. They want to be able to say, 'My language is perfect. It can do…

— Yukihiro Matsumoto

Actually, I didn't make the claim that Ruby follows the principle of least surprise. Someone felt the design of Ruby follows that…

— Yukihiro Matsumoto

Ruby inherited the Perl philosophy of having more than one way to do the same thing. I inherited that philosophy from Larry…

— Yukihiro Matsumoto

I hope to see Ruby help every programmer in the world to be productive, and to enjoy programming, and to be happy.…

— Yukihiro Matsumoto

From the viewpoint of what you can do, therefore, languages do differ - but the differences are limited. For example, Python and…

— Yukihiro Matsumoto

Most programs are not write-once. They are reworked and rewritten again and again in their lived. Bugs must be debugged. Changing requirements…

— Yukihiro Matsumoto

Most of the tasks we do are for humans. For example, a tax calculation is counting numbers so the government can pull…

— Yukihiro Matsumoto

Because of the Turing completeness theory, everything one Turing-complete language can do can theoretically be done by another Turing-complete language, but at…

— Yukihiro Matsumoto

People are different. People choose different criteria. But if there is a better way among many alternatives, I want to encourage that…

— Yukihiro Matsumoto

Smart people underestimate the ordinarity of ordinary people.

— Yukihiro Matsumoto

I believe that the purpose of life is, at least in part, to be happy. Based on this belief, Ruby is designed…

— Yukihiro Matsumoto

In our daily lives as programmers, we process text strings a lot. So I tried to work hard on text processing, namely…

— Yukihiro Matsumoto

Imagine you are writing an email. You are in front of the computer. You are operating the computer, clicking a mouse and…

— Yukihiro Matsumoto

Often people, especially computer engineers, focus on the machines. But in fact we need to focus on humans, on how humans care…

— Yukihiro Matsumoto