I hope to see Ruby help every programmer in the world to be productive, and to enjoy programming, and to be happy. That is the primary purpose of Ruby language. Yukihiro Matsumoto More Quotes by Yukihiro Matsumoto More Quotes From Yukihiro Matsumoto 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. Yukihiro Matsumoto saying someone design surprise