Common Quote by Erik Naggum

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

Lisp was far more powerful and flexible than any other language of its day; in fact, it is still a better design than most…

— Eric S. Raymond

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

— Philip Greenspun

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

Greenspun's Tenth Rule of Programming: any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc informally-specified bug-ridden slow implementation of half of Common…

— Philip Greenspun

Lisp is still #1 for key algorithmic techniques such as recursion and condescension.

— Verity Stob

C++ is a language strongly optimized for liars and people who go by guesswork and ignorance.

— Erik Naggum

Life is too long to know C++ well.

— Erik Naggum

LISP programmers know the value of everything and the cost of nothing.

— Alan Perlis

C++ is a horrible language. It's made more horrible by the fact that a lot of substandard programmers use it, to the point where…

— Linus Torvalds

C++ is a pile of crap.

— Theo de Raadt

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

— Neal Stephenson