Most papers in computer science describe how their author learned what someone else already knew. — Peter Landin Copy Share Image
SQL, Lisp, and Haskell are the only programming languages that I've seen where one spends more time thinking than typing. — Philip Greenspun Copy Share Image
Lisp has all the visual appeal of oatmeal with fingernail clippings mixed in. — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
That's why the smartest companies use Common Lisp, but lie about it so all their competitors think Lisp is slow and C++… — Erik Naggum Copy Share Image
You need to take small steps when you dream big dreams. I am a published author with dyslexia, a professional speaker who… — Karl Mecklenburg Copy Share Image
One of the most important and fascinating of all computer languages is Lisp (standing for "List Processing"), which was invented by John… — Douglas Hofstadter Copy Share Image
The problem with Maigret is he hasn't got a limp, and he hasn't got a lisp, and he hasn't got a French… — Rowan Atkinson Copy Share Image
[Perl] combines all the worst aspects of C and Lisp: a billion different sublanguages in one monolithic executable. It combines the power… — Jamie Zawinski Copy Share Image
The most powerful programming language is Lisp. If you don't know Lisp (or its variant, Scheme), you don't appreciate what a powerful… — Richard Stallman Copy Share Image
Oh, that dog! Ever hear of a German Shepherd that bites its nails? Barks with a lisp? You say, "Attack!" And he… — Phyllis Diller Copy Share Image
When the hounds of Spring are on winter's traces, The mother of months in meadow or plain Fills the shadows and windy… — Algernon Charles Swinburne Copy Share Image
We lisp in numbers, in the U.S. We are deluged by ample, often mysterious statistics. ... Like many in this country, I… — Martha Gellhorn Copy Share Image
Voices come to me but to maintain them is hard work. They go away just as easily, so I have to remember… — John Leguizamo Copy Share Image
It thunders, howls, roars, hisses, whistles, blusters, hums, growls, rumbles, squeaks, groans, sings, crackles, cracks, rattles, flickers, clicks, snarls, tumbles, whimpers, whines,… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Lisp ... made me aware that software could be close to executable mathematics. — L Peter Deutsch Copy Share Image
A novice was trying to fix a broken Lisp machine by turning the power off and on. Knight, seeing what the student… — Danny Hillis Copy Share Image
[Emacs] is written in Lisp, which is the only computer language that is beautiful. — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
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