> Ruby changed my life. Ruby gave me a whole new way of looking at things, and a whole new set of friends.

Matz himself said something similar about Emacs / Lisp [1]:

> Emacs made me realize anything can be changed by a programmer...Emacs taught me freedom for software...Emacs has changed my life

[1] http://ergoemacs.org/emacs/Matz_Ruby_how_emacs_changed_my_li...