"We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his……" — Alan Perlis
"We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses."
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- The most powerful programming language is Lisp. If you don't know Lisp (or its variant, Scheme), you don't appreciate what… — Richard Stallman
- ...instead of offering me a Garibaldi biscuit, she asked me with that faint lisp of hers, to 'have some squashed… — H.G. Wells
- One of the most important and fascinating of all computer languages is Lisp (standing for "List Processing"), which was invented… — Douglas Hofstadter
- Lisp isn't a language, it's a building material. — Alan Kay
- Lisp is worth learning for the profound enlightenment experience you will have when you finally get it; that experience will… — Eric S. Raymond
- We were not out to win over the Lisp programmers; we were after the C++ programmers. We managed to drag… — Guy Steele
- Lisp has jokingly been called "the most intelligent way to misuse a computer". I think that description is a great… — Edsger Dijkstra
- Lisp ... made me aware that software could be close to executable mathematics. — L Peter Deutsch
- Common Lisp is politics, not art. — Scott Fahlman
- Lisp doesn't look any deader than usual to me. — Unknown Author
- Lisp was far more powerful and flexible than any other language of its day; in fact, it is still a… — Eric S. Raymond
- Greenspun's Tenth Rule of Programming: any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc informally-specified bug-ridden slow implementation… — Philip Greenspun