What is a good first language?

My 20 year old brother wants to get into programming.  I want to set him up with a language that has these features:

1. Easy to learn, must have simple syntax
2. Immediate results, easy to make graphical and text outputs.
3. Fully featured language(I want him to be able to easily progress into more advanced stuff and not be limited by the language)
4. Fast(So he gets the idea of how powerful computers are)

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Java is a terrible language to start with. It's stupidly verbose, and the API is inconsistent.

Scheme might be a decent choice if not for the heavy emphasis on recursion, which is a really hard concept to grasp at first. Ruby is fairly decent as long as you completely ignore Rails.