Believe Quote by Michael Palin

Python is an experiment in how much freedom programmers need. Too much freedom and nobody can read another's code; too little and expressiveness is…

— Guido van Rossum

My own perception of that is somewhat colored by where people ask my advice, which is still, of course, about changes to Python internals…

— Guido van Rossum

Now, it's my belief that Python is a lot easier than to teach to students programming and teach them C or C++ or Java…

— Guido van Rossum

Why the hell hasn't wxPython become the standard GUI for Python yet?

— Eric S. Raymond

“when in Pythonland, do as Pythonistas do, not as C programmers do.”

— Mark Lutz

Perl is worse than Python because people wanted it worse.

— Larry Wall

In my daily work, I work on very large, complex, distributed systems built out of many Python modules and packages. The focus is very…

— Guido van Rossum

Many computer scientists have fallen into the trap of trying to define languages like George Orwell's Newspeak, in which it is impossible to think…

— Larry Wall

Twenty years ago the computer was a babbling box. Now it is a boasting beast.

— David Luiz

I think computer science, by and large, is still stuck in the Modern age.

— Larry Wall

Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and…

— Rick Cook

My favorite language for maintainability is Python. It has simple, clean syntax, object encapsulation, good library support, and optional named parameters.

— Bram Cohen