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

- Yukihiro Matsumoto

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…

- Yukihiro Matsumoto

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…

- Yukihiro Matsumoto

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

- Yukihiro Matsumoto

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

- Yukihiro Matsumoto

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…

- Yukihiro Matsumoto

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…

- Yukihiro Matsumoto

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…

- Yukihiro Matsumoto

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.

- Yukihiro Matsumoto