Нашел подборку цитат от разработчиков языка Python (этакая история языка в цитатах):
I've seen Python criticized as "ugly" precisely because it doesn't have a trick-based view of the world. In many ways, it's a dull language, borrowing solid old concepts from many other languages & styles: boring syntax, unsurprising semantics, few automatic coercions, etc etc. But that's one of the things I like about it.
-- Tim Peters, 16 Sep 1993
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.
-- Guido van Rossum, 13 Aug 1996
I mean, just take a look at Joe Strout's brilliant little "python for beginners" page. Replace all print-statements with sys.stdout.write( string.join(map(str, args)) + "\n") and you surely won't get any new beginners. And That Would Be A Very Bad Thing.
-- Fredrik Lundh, 27 Aug 1996
One of my first big programming assignments as a student of computer science was a source formatter for Pascal. The assignment was designed to show us the real-life difficulties of group programming projects. It succeeded perhaps too well. For a long time, I was convinced that source code formatters were a total waste of time, and decided to write beautiful code that no automatic formatter could improve upon. In fact, I would intentionally write code that formatters could only make worse.
-- Guido van Rossum, 31 Mar 1998
This is Python! If we didn't care what code looked like, most of us would probably be hacking in some version of Lisp -- which already covered most of Python's abstract semantics way back when Guido was just a wee snakelet frolicking in the lush Amsterdam jungle.
-- Tim Peters, 24 Apr 1998
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http://www.amk.ca/quotations/python-quotes/ (я прочитал пока только первые 5 частей :)))))