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"The orthogonal features, when combined, can explode into complexity."
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"In my piano concerto I developed this polyphony to much higher complexity."
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"To think of shadows is a serious thing."
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"There were so many different versions of him. It was countless versions of a song, and they were all original, and they were all true, and they were all right. It should have been impossible. Was I supposed to love them all?"
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"There's no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another."
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"Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it."
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"I don't really have preferred roles except those with some complexity."
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"Some things in life are too complicated to explain in any language."
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"The orthogonal features, when combined, can explode into complexity."
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"Everything's complicated, even those things that seem flat in their bleakness or sadness."
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"Simple systems are not feasible because they require infinite testing."
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"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."
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"I believe consistency and orthogonality are tools of design, not the primary goal in design."
Design
"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."
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"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."
Work
"Actually, I didn't make the claim that Ruby follows the principle of least surprise. Someone felt the design of Ruby follows that philosophy, so they started saying that. I didn't bring that up, actually."
Design
"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."
People
"From the viewpoint of what you can do, therefore, languages do differ - but the differences are limited. For example, Python and Ruby provide almost the same power to the programmer."
Power
"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."
Life
"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."
Government
"The orthogonal features, when combined, can explode into complexity."
Complexity
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