Programming Ease Quotes

It's very hard to explain to people who don't program, but the object-oriented programming system made programming the Mac and iPhone so easy.

I believe that the purpose of life is, at least in part, to be happy. Based on this belief, Ruby is designed to make programming not only easy but also fun. It allows you to concentrate on the creative side of programming, with less stress.

We worked very hard to make extensions very simple.

A language that doesn't have everything is actually easier to program in than some that do

We've been using C and C++ way too much - they're nice, but they're very close to the machine and what we wanted was to empower regular users to build applications for Linux.

Computer languages differ not so much in what they make possible, but in what they make easy.

Perl should remain fast and intuitive (to the extent that it is :-)

Much of my work has come from being lazy. I didn't like writing programs, and so, when I was working on the IBM 701 (an early computer), writing programs for computing missile trajectories, I started work on a programming system to make it easier to write programs.

It was such a relief to program in user mode for a change. Not having to care about the small stuff is wonderful.