24 Quotes by Guido van Rossum

Python is an experiment in how much freedom programmers need. Too much freedom and nobody can read another’s code; too little and expressiveness is endangered.

Modern programs must handle Unicode – Python has excellent support for Unicode, and will keep getting better.

If you’re talking about Java in particular, Python is about the best fit you can get amongst all the other languages. Yet the funny thing is, from a language point of view, JavaScript has a lot in common with Python, but it is sort of a restricted subset.

It’s easy to make mistakes that only come out much later, after you’ve already implemented a lot of code. You’ll realize Oh I should have used a different type of data structure. Start over from scratch.

Mark Hammond is working in this area, with Windows Scripting Host. It is definitely an area where Python fits almost perfectly. That’s quite independent from Java, actually.

There is an incredibly large spectrum of possible causes for program bugs, including simple typos, “thinkos,” hidden limitations of underlying abstractions, and outright bugs in abstractions or their implementation.