portertillmaniii27 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.

coriesimonis3 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.

profsimonlangworth38 It is not the responsibility of the language to force good looking code, but the language should make good looking code possible.

chucksawaynret86 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 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 Ruby language.