diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
index ce463e5b..395e29e4 100644
--- a/README.rst
+++ b/README.rst
@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ Contributing or modifying the theme
 ===================================
 
 The sphinx_rtd_theme is primarily a sass_ project that requires a few other sass libraries. I'm
-using bower_ to manage these dependencies and compass_ to build the css. The good news is
+using bower_ to manage these dependencies and sass_ to build the css. The good news is
 I have a very nice set of grunt_ operations that will not only load these dependecies, but watch
 for changes, rebuild the sphinx demo docs and build a distributable version of the theme.
 The bad news is this means you'll need to set up your environment similar to that
@@ -96,11 +96,11 @@ Set up your environment
 
     pip install sphinx
 
-2. Install sass and compass
+2. Install sass
 
 .. code::
 
-    gem install sass compass
+    gem install sass
 
 2. Install node, bower and grunt.