Beautiful Quote by Larry Wall

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

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

— Neal Stephenson

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 language is.…

— Richard Stallman

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

— Paul Graham

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

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

SQL, Lisp, and Haskell are the only programming languages that I've seen where one spends more time thinking than typing.

— 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

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

I find it cruel that the word lisp has an s in it.

— Nikhil Saluja

There's nothing wrong with a lisp.

— Kiernan Shipka