--- title: "4 Scott Fahlman Quotes - Famous Computer scientist" description: "Scott Elliott Fahlman is an American computer scientist and Professor Emeritus at Carnegie Mellon University's Language Technologies Institute and Compu..." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b021/author-scott-fahlman-83627.jpg" --- ![Portrait of Scott Fahlman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b021/author-scott-fahlman-83627.jpg) # Scott Fahlman (1948) Computer Scientist **4** quotes in **40** categories Rate this collection: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet Scott Fahlman is a computer scientist, best known for *NETL Artificial Intelligence*. ## Quick Facts About Scott Fahlman Born March 21, 1948 Profession Computer Scientist Notable works NETL Artificial Intelligence ## About Scott Fahlman Scott Elliott Fahlman is an American computer scientist and Professor Emeritus at Carnegie Mellon University's Language Technologies Institute and Computer Science Department. He is notable for early work on automated planning and scheduling in a blocks world, on semantic networks, on neural networks, on the programming languages Dylan, and Common Lisp, and he was one of the founders of Lucid Inc. During the period when it was standardized, he was recognized as "the leader of Common Lisp." From 2006 to 2015, Fahlman was engaged in developing a knowledge base named Scone, based in part on his thesis work on the NETL Semantic Network. He also is credited with coining the use of the emoticon. ## Quotes by Scott Fahlman > [If you want a language that tries to lock up all the sharp objects and fire-making implements, use Pascal or Ada: the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/scott-fahlman/if-you-want-a-language-that-tries-to-lock-up-all-the-sharp-objects/) Scott Fahlman [Ada](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/ada/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/da4/scott-fahlman-66535_ada_if-you-want-a-language-that-tries-to-loc_500916.png) > [Common Lisp is politics, not art.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/scott-fahlman/common-lisp-is-politics-not-art/) Scott Fahlman [Art](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/art/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e9a/scott-fahlman-66535_art_common-lisp-is-politics-not-art-1785324_1785324.png) > [In case you're not a computer person, I should probably point out that 'Real Soon Now' is a technical term meaning 'sometime…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/scott-fahlman/in-case-you-re-not-a-computer-person-i-should-probably-point-out-that/) Scott Fahlman [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4b7/scott-fahlman-66535_cases_in-case-you-re-not-a-computer-person-i-s_1835335.png) > [If you are always pressing the envelope, you will suffer many paper cuts.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/scott-fahlman/if-you-are-always-pressing-the-envelope-you-will-suffer-many-paper/) Scott Fahlman [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e0f/scott-fahlman-66535_cutting_if-you-are-always-pressing-the-envelope_2616823.png) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/scott-fahlman/#itemlist", "name": "Scott Fahlman Quotes", "numberOfItems": 4, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "If you want a language that tries to lock up all the sharp objects and fire-making implements, use Pascal 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