"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"

"The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next"

"The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next"

"I think philosophers can do things akin to theoretical scientists, in that, having read about empirical data, they too can think of what hypotheses and theories might account for that data. So there's a continuity between philosophy and science in that way"

"Design is not for philosophy it's for life"

"Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom"

"There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy"

"Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed"

"I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend"

"I am an Epicurean. I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus as containing everything rational in moral philosophy which Greek and Roman leave to us"

"All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain"