I have this hope that there is a better way. Higher-level tools that actually let you see the structure of the software more clearly will be of treme…

- Guido Van Rossum

Modern programs must handle Unicode —Python has excellent support for Unicode, and will keep getting better.

- 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 at the same time because all th…

- Guido Van Rossum

Mark Hammond is working in this area, with Windows Scripting Host. It is definitely an area where Python fits almost perfectly. That's quite independ…

- Guido Van Rossum

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 e…

- Guido Van Rossum

If you decide to design your own language, there are thousands of sort of amateur language designer pitfalls.

- Guido Van Rossum

If you're talking about Java in particular, Python is about the best fit you can get amongst all the other languages. Yet the funny thing is, from a …

- Guido Van Rossum

There is an incredibly large spectrum of possible causes for program bugs, including simple typos, "thinkos," hidden limitations of underlying abstra…

- Guido Van Rossum

I would guess that the decision to create a small special purpose language or use an existing general purpose language is one of the toughest decisio…

- Guido Van Rossum