Drag Quote by 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

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

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

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

— Larry Wall

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

— Alan Perlis

My favorite programming languages are Lisp and C. However, since around 1992 I have worked mainly on free software activism, which means I am…

— Richard Stallman

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

— Verity Stob

Lisp ... made me aware that software could be close to executable mathematics.

— L Peter Deutsch

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

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

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

— Neal Stephenson