Activism Quote by Richard Stallman

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 love learning languages, and actually computer code is another language as well.

— Tang Wei

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

— Philip Greenspun

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

Programming in the abstract sense is what I really enjoy. I enjoy lots of different areas of it... I'm taking a great deal of…

— John Carmack

People sometimes have a view of programming that is something solitary and very technical. But programming is among the most creative, expressive, and social…

— Craig Federighi

I started programming before even being in school.

— Alexandra Elbakyan

“Programming is not all the same. Normal written languages have different rhythms and idioms, right? Well, so do programming languages. The language called C…

— Robin Sloane

The kind of programming that C provides will probably remain similar absolutely or slowly decline in usage, but relatively, JavaScript or its variants, or…

— Dennis Ritchie

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

— Neal Stephenson

And C++ programming languages, we own those, have licensed them out multiple times, obviously. We have a lot of royalties coming to us from…

— Darl McBride

A programming language is for thinking about programs, not for expressing programs you've already thought of. It should be a pencil, not a pen.

— Paul Graham