leocronin59 I believe consistency and orthogonality are tools of design, not the primary goal in design.

herbvon13 The orthogonal features, when combined, can explode into complexity.

portertillmaniii27 Ruby inherited the Perl philosophy of having more than one way to do the same thing. I inherited that philosophy from Larry Wall, who is my hero actually. I want to make Ruby users free. I want to give them the freedom to choose.

profsimonlangworth38 Often people, especially computer engineers, focus on the machines. But in fact we need to focus on humans, on how humans care about doing programming or operating the application of the machines.