Actually Quote by Yukihiro Matsumoto

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

“It comes down to this: Ruby is a language for grown-ups; it gives you the tools for writing clear and concise code. It’s up…

— Russ Olsen

“It is easy to program in Ruby, but Ruby is not a simple language.”

— Stefan Wintermeyer

“But, of course, the point of a programming language is that you don't just read it; you write it, too. You make it do…

— Robin Sloan

What I actually admire in Perl is its ability to provide a very successful abstraction of the horrible mess that is collectively called Unix.

— Erik Naggum

Perl programming is an *empirical* science!

— Larry Wall

“you can do everything in Python that you can in Perl, but”

— Mark Lutz

“When Ruby programmers say that some class “quacks like an Array,” they usually mean that it’s not necessarily an Array nor a descendant of…

— Armando Fox

As pointed out in a followup, Real Perl Programmers prefer things to be visually distinct.

— Larry Wall

Almost nothing in Perl serves a single purpose.

— Larry Wall

I have actually programmed a fair bit in Perl, like I have C++ code published with my name on it. Other things I have…

— Erik Naggum

One can't be free without action.

— Christopher Moore