Haskell Quote by Philip Greenspun

A programming language is a tool that has profound influence on our thinking habits.

— Edsger Dijkstra

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

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

A language that doesn't have everything is actually easier to program in than some that do

— Dennis Ritchie

Most programming languages are decidedly inferior to mathematical notation and are little used as tools of thought in ways that would be considered significant…

— Kenneth E. Iverson

Many computer scientists have fallen into the trap of trying to define languages like George Orwell's Newspeak, in which it is impossible to think…

— Larry Wall

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

— Larry Wall

A programming language is like a natural, human language in that it favors certain methaphors, images, and ways of thinking.

— Seymour Papert

A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.

— Anonymous

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

— Neal Stephenson

A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.

— Alan Perlis

Computer scientists have so far worked on developing powerful programming languages that make it possible to solve the technical problems of computation. Little effort…

— Donald A. Norman