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 tried to mak….

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

I believe that the purpose of life is, at least in part, to be happy. Based on this belief, Ruby is designed to make programming not only easy but al….

Smart people underestimate the ordinarity of ordinary people..

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

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

I hope to see Ruby help every programmer in the world to be productive, and to enjoy programming, and to be happy. That is the primary purpose of Rub….

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

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 pl….

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

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

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 can write software..