Take Lisp, you know its the most beautiful language in the world -- at least up until Haskell came along. — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
Lisp is worth learning for the profound enlightenment experience you will have when you finally get it; that experience will make you… — Eric S. Raymond Copy Share Image
Lisp is still #1 for key algorithmic techniques such as recursion and condescension. — Verity Stob Copy Share Image
Greenspun's Tenth Rule of Programming: any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc informally-specified bug-ridden slow implementation of half… — Philip Greenspun Copy Share Image
This does not mean that I fail to recognise that Lisp is still #1 for key algorithmic techniques such as recursion and… — Verity Stob Copy Share Image
The continuation that obeys only obvious stack semantics, O grasshopper, is not the true continuation. — Guy Steele Copy Share Image
I lisp. My eyes disappear when I smile. My voice is funny. I don't sing like Judy Garland. I don't dance like… — June Allyson Copy Share Image
Imprisoned in every fat man a thin one is wildly signalling to be let out. — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
We were not out to win over the Lisp programmers; we were after the C++ programmers. We managed to drag a lot… — Guy Steele Copy Share Image
That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for the expression of thought, is a truth generally… — George Boole Copy Share Image
“You wouldn't think there is anything life threatening about speech impediments, but let me tell you, there is nothing more dangerous than… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
If you give someone Fortran, he has Fortran. If you give someone Lisp, he has any language he pleases — Guy Steele Copy Share Image
A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing. — Alan Perlis Copy Share Image
My favorite programming languages are Lisp and C. However, since around 1992 I have worked mainly on free software activism, which means… — Richard Stallman Copy Share Image
...instead of offering me a Garibaldi biscuit, she asked me with that faint lisp of hers, to 'have some squashed flies, George'. — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
LISP has jokingly been described as "the most intelligent way to misuse a computer." I think that description is a great compliment… — Edsger Dijkstra Copy Share Image
Why did I write? whose sin to me unknown Dipt me in ink, my parents', or my own? As yet a child,… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Lisp was far more powerful and flexible than any other language of its day; in fact, it is still a better design… — Eric S. Raymond Copy Share Image
I study much, and the more I study, the oftener I go back to those first principles which are so simple that… — Sophie Swetchine Copy Share Image
Anyone could learn Lisp in one day, except that if they already knew Fortran, it would take three days. — Marvin Minsky Copy Share Image
