(en) Anthony Cangiano, « Why Engine Yard, Rubinius, and Merb matter », (consulté le ) : « "A while ago they also hired Evan Phoenix to work full-time on Rubinius, a promising alternative Ruby implementation and a rigorous spec for the language." »
(en) Charles Nutter, « Promise and Peril for Alternative Ruby Impls », (consulté le ) : « Evan Phoenix's Rubinius project is an effort to implement Ruby using as much Ruby code as possible. »
(en) Dick Gabriel, « Episode 84: Dick Gabriel on Lisp » (consulté le ) : « 'Well, you know if I took that piece of code and hand compiled it, then that could be an interpreter for Lisp.' So he did that and it surprised John McCarthy and overnight they had a running implementation of Lisp. »
