"Most of the tasks we do are for……" — Yukihiro Matsumoto
"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."
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19 Quotes by Yukihiro Matsumoto
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Language designers want to design the perfect language. They want to be able to say, 'My language is perfect. It…
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The orthogonal features, when combined, can explode into complexity.
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I didn't work hard to make Ruby perfect for everyone, because you feel differently from me. No language can be…
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I hope to see Ruby help every programmer in the world to be productive, and to enjoy programming, and to…
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I believe that the purpose of life is, at least in part, to be happy. Based on this belief, Ruby…
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Often people, especially computer engineers, focus on the machines. But in fact we need to focus on humans, on how…
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It is not the responsibility of the language to force good looking code, but the language should make good looking…
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Man is driven to create; I know I really love to create things. And while I'm not good at painting,…
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Most programs are not write-once. They are reworked and rewritten again and again in their lived. Bugs must be debugged.…
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Imagine you are writing an email. You are in front of the computer. You are operating the computer, clicking a…
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Because of the Turing completeness theory, everything one Turing-complete language can do can theoretically be done by another Turing-complete language,…
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From the viewpoint of what you can do, therefore, languages do differ - but the differences are limited. For example,…
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More Calculation Quotes
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Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation.
— Charles Baudelaire
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Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to…
— Henri Frederic Amiel
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Common sense is calculation applied to life.
— Henri Frederic Amiel
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It seems to me, that if statesmen had a little more arithmetic, or were accustomed to calculation, wars would be…
— Benjamin Franklin
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Now this foreknowledge cannot be elicited from spirits; it cannot be obtained inductively from experience, nor by any deductive calculation.
— Sun Tzu
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I would by all means have men beware, lest Æsop's pretty fable of the fly that sate [sic] on the…
— Francis Bacon
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It was about three o'clock at night when the final result of the calculation [which gave birth to quantum mechanics]…
— Werner Heisenberg
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The end of the eighteenth and the beginning of the nineteenth century were remarkable for the small amount of scientific…
— John Herschel
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His [Thomas Edison] method was inefficient in the extreme, for an immense ground had to be covered to get anything…
— Nikola Tesla
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...comparing the capacity of computers to the capacity of the human brain, I've often wondered, where does our success come…
— Garry Kasparov
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If he [Thomas Edison] had a needle to find in a haystack, he would not stop to reason where it…
— Nikola Tesla
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Le Verrier-without leaving his study, without even looking at the sky-had found the unknown planet [Neptune] solely by mathematical calculation,…
— Camille Flammarion
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