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I mean, yeah, I'm sure that Python and the other things have paved the way for a greater understanding of the British sense of humor, but I don't think it's all that different than the American sense of humor.

People are still crazy about Python after twenty-five years, which I find hard to believe.

I think the special thing about Python is that it's a writers' commune. The writers are in charge. The writers decide what the material is.

Americans don't care what your language is, your race is, whatever. Everyone is there to do their own thing and be successful. I wish people in Britain would be more positive.

I think Brits probably feel that Americans are more like us than vice-versa, if that makes sense. Because we get everything American over here in Britain, but yet there are things which are staunchly English that you guys don't have.

The English are polite by telling lies. The Americans are polite by telling the truth.

Everyone thinks England and America are the same, as we have the same language, but I felt like an alien as an English person living in America.

My own perception of that is somewhat colored by where people ask my advice, which is still, of course, about changes to Python internals or at least standard libraries.

Americans like the British kind of quirkiness and the strange accent. They find it kind of cute or something, with a certain charm.

Americans are people who prefer the Continent to their own country, but refuse to learn its languages.