Creative Quote by Eric S. Raymond

Lisp is worth learning for the profound enlightenment experience you will have when you finally get it; that experience will make you a better…

— 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 of them…

— Guy Steele

The most powerful programming language is Lisp. If you don't know Lisp (or its variant, Scheme), you don't appreciate what a powerful language is.…

— Richard Stallman

That's why the smartest companies use Common Lisp, but lie about it so all their competitors think Lisp is slow and C++ is fast.

— Erik Naggum

Take Lisp, you know its the most beautiful language in the world -- at least up until Haskell came along.

— Larry Wall

One of the most important and fascinating of all computer languages is Lisp (standing for "List Processing"), which was invented by John McCarthy around…

— Douglas Hofstadter

LISP has jokingly been described as "the most intelligent way to misuse a computer." I think that description is a great compliment because it…

— Edsger Dijkstra

Lisp isn't a language, it's a building material.

— Alan Kay

I suppose I should learn Lisp, but it seems so foreign.

— Paul Graham

Lisp has jokingly been called "the most intelligent way to misuse a computer". I think that description is a great compliment because it transmits…

— Edsger Dijkstra

[Emacs] is written in Lisp, which is the only computer language that is beautiful.

— Neal Stephenson

“Any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Common Lisp.”

— Philip Greenspun