I believe freedom is equal to freedom to choose, freedom of choice. Choice means decision. Decision making is the source of freedom. So be a decision-maker.
Yukihiro Matsumoto, Changing Your World, Barcelona Ruby Conference 2013
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"Test infected" (2003)
Will we all be programming in a dynamically typed language in 2010?
Methods without Contracts (2003)
The flexibility to change the implementation without changing the interface works well only for certain things.
"Career-shatteringly bad mistake"
What I really wanted to do at the time was use Lisp, actually, but I didn’t say it. And [Alan Eustace] goes, “Well!” He says, “Well… how would you feel if there was a team out there who said they were gonna use… LISP!” He’d pulled his ace out, and he brandished it at me, and I went: “That’s what I wanted to use.” And he goes, “Oh.” And that was the end of the conversation.
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Why aren't people using Python 3?
I believe that the problem lies with the university incentive structure… In the presence of these twin mandates — spend no money, and break none of the things — CentOS apparently begins to look attractive.
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