Condescension Quote by Verity Stob

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

— Verity Stob

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

— Philip Greenspun

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 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

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

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

— Alan Perlis

The exception tests the rule.

— Richard P. Feynman

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

— L Peter Deutsch

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

— Neal Stephenson

The exception is more interesting than the rule. The rule proves nothing; the exception proves everything. In the exception the power of real life…

— Carl Schmitt

[Perl] combines all the worst aspects of C and Lisp: a billion different sublanguages in one monolithic executable. It combines the power of C…

— Jamie Zawinski