diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
index a522d9d91..1888eb37a 100644
--- a/README.rst
+++ b/README.rst
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 |
 
 
-**Ray provides a simple and universal API for building distributed applications.**
+**Ray provides a simple, universal API for building distributed applications.**
 
 Ray is packaged with the following libraries for accelerating machine learning workloads:
 
diff --git a/doc/site/_config.yml b/doc/site/_config.yml
index bc365278c..3b9aca548 100644
--- a/doc/site/_config.yml
+++ b/doc/site/_config.yml
@@ -13,10 +13,10 @@
 # you will see them accessed via {{ site.title }}, {{ site.email }}, and so on.
 # You can create any custom variable you would like, and they will be accessible
 # in the templates via {{ site.myvariable }}.
-title: "Ray: A simple and universal API for building distributed applications"
+title: "Ray: An open-source framework that provides a simple, universal API for building distributed applications"
 email: ""
 description: > # this means to ignore newlines until "baseurl:"
-  Ray provides a simple and universal API for building distributed applications.
+  Ray provides a simple, universal API for building distributed applications.
 baseurl: "" # the subpath of your site, e.g. /blog
 url: "" # the base hostname & protocol for your site, e.g. http://example.com
 github_username:  ray-project
diff --git a/doc/site/index.html b/doc/site/index.html
index 569616f46..bde1d613c 100644
--- a/doc/site/index.html
+++ b/doc/site/index.html
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ layout: default
 </p>
 
 <p>
-   <b>Ray provides a simple and universal API for building distributed applications.</b>
+   <b>Ray provides a simple, universal API for building distributed applications.</b>
 </p>
 
 <p>
diff --git a/doc/source/ray-overview/basics.rst b/doc/source/ray-overview/basics.rst
index 74015d52a..b61fc2ae8 100644
--- a/doc/source/ray-overview/basics.rst
+++ b/doc/source/ray-overview/basics.rst
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 
 .. image:: https://github.com/ray-project/ray/raw/master/doc/source/images/ray_header_logo.png
 
-**Ray provides a simple and universal API for building distributed applications.**
+**Ray provides a simple, universal API for building distributed applications.**
 
 Ray accomplishes this mission by:
 
diff --git a/java/pom.xml b/java/pom.xml
index 10c5ac9b9..2f9f21c35 100644
--- a/java/pom.xml
+++ b/java/pom.xml
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
   <version>0.9.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
   <packaging>pom</packaging>
   <name>Ray Project Parent POM</name>
-  <description>A simple and universal API for building distributed applications.
+  <description>An open source framework that provides a simple, universal API for building distributed applications.
   </description>
   <url>https://github.com/ray-project/ray</url>