Yukihiro Matsumoto Quotes

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

- Yukihiro Matsumoto

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Consistency | Orthogonality | Tools | Design | Primary |

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Sometimes people jot down pseudo-code on paper. If that pseudo-code runs directly on their computers, it's best, isn't it? Ruby tries to be like that, like pseudo-code that runs. Python people say that too. - Yukihiro Matsumoto

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. - Yukihiro Matsumoto

People are different. People choose different criteria. But if there is a better way among many alternatives, I want to encourage that way by making it comfortable. So that's what I've tried to do. - Yukihiro Matsumoto