clementstokes7 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 make Ruby perfect for me, but maybe it's not perfect for you. The perfect language for Guido van Rossum is probably Python.

yasmincrist82 You want to enjoy life, don't you? If you get your job done quickly and your job is fun, that's good isn't it? That's the purpose of life, partly. Your life is better.

mrsmaclindgren9 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.

mitchellvolkman9 I believe consistency and orthogonality are tools of design, not the primary goal in design.

morganyundt47 It is not the responsibility of the language to force good looking code, but the language should make good looking code possible.