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- Lisp isn't a language, it's a building material. — Alan Kay
- 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
- ...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
- One of the most important and fascinating of all computer languages is Lisp (standing for "List Processing"), which was invented by John… — Douglas Hofstadter
- 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
- We were not out to win over the Lisp programmers; we were after the C++ programmers. We managed to drag a lot… — Guy Steele
- Lisp has jokingly been called "the most intelligent way to misuse a computer". I think that description is a great compliment because… — Edsger Dijkstra
- Lisp ... made me aware that software could be close to executable mathematics. — L Peter Deutsch