Pastoral Resources

An artist must possess Nature. He must identify himself with her rhythm, by efforts that will prepare the mastery which will later enable him to express himself in his own language.

Creativity takes courage.

Because of the Turing completeness theory, everything one Turing-complete language can do can theoretically be done by another Turing-complete language, but at a different cost. You can do everything in assembler, but no one wants to program in assembler anymore.

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.

In our daily lives as programmers, we process text strings a lot. So I tried to work hard on text processing, namely the string class and regular expressions. Regular expressions are built into the language and are very tuned up for use.

So I really did stop and change what I saw I was about, and really try to put that principle into play as the center of everything - my friendships, my marriage, my career, my family, my way of being in the world. And that changed everything for me.

I like to make everything my friends are involved in a little better. I should have just become a manager.

I'm not the manager because I'm always right, but I'm always right because I'm the manager.

Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it's a mistake to make a habit out of it.

It is better to be unhappy in love than unhappy in marriage, but some people manage to be both.

A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.

A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.

Discouragement is not the absence of adequacy but the absence of courage.

Seeing unhappiness in the marriage of friends, I was content to have chosen music and laughter as a substitute for a husband.

Mathematicians may flatter themselves that they possess new ideas which mere human language is as yet unable to express.

The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.

It requires greater courage to preserve inner freedom, to move on in one's inward journey into new realms, than to stand defiantly for outer freedom. It is often easier to play the martyr, as it is to be rash in battle.

Courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.

I think the main thing was that the character couldn't speak in regular language, so he had to be mimed.