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"Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute."
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<pclass="quote-author">- Abelson & Sussman, SICP, preface to the first edition</p>
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<pclass="quote-text">"That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted."</p>
<pclass="quote-author">- George Boole, quoted in Iverson's Turing Award Lecture</p>
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<pclass="quote-text">"One of the most important and fascinating of all computer languages is Lisp (standing for "List Processing"), which was invented by John McCarthy around the time Algol was invented."</p>
<pclass="quote-author">- Douglas Hofstadter, Godel, Escher, Bach</p>
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<pclass="quote-text">"Lisp is a programmable programming language."</p>
<pclass="quote-author">- John Foderaro, CACM, September 1991</p>
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<pclass="quote-text">"Lisp isn't a language, it's a building material."</p>
<pclass="quote-author">- Alan Kay</p>
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<pclass="quote-text">"Any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc informally-specified bug-ridden slow implementation of half of Common Lisp."</p>
<pclass="quote-author">- Philip Greenspun (Greenspun's Tenth Rule of Programming)</p>
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<pclass="quote-text">"Lisp is worth learning for the profound enlightenment experience you will have when you finally get it; that experience will make you a better programmer for the rest of your days, even if you never actually use Lisp itself a lot."</p>
<pclass="quote-author">- Eric Raymond, "How to Become a Hacker"</p>
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<pclass="quote-text">"Lisp is a programmer amplifier."</p>
<pclass="quote-author">- Martin Rodgers</p>
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<pclass="quote-text">"Common Lisp, a happy amalgam of the features of previous Lisps."</p>
<pclass="quote-author">- Winston & Horn, Lisp</p>
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<pclass="quote-text">"Lisp doesn't look any deader than usual to me."</p>
<pclass="quote-author">- David Thornley</p>
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<pclass="quote-text">"SQL, Lisp, and Haskell are the only programming languages that I've seen where one spends more time thinking than typing."</p>
<pclass="quote-author">- Philip Greenspun</p>
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<pclass="quote-text">"Don't worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it."</p>
<pclass="quote-author">- Alan Kay</p>
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<pclass="quote-text">"The greatest single programming language ever designed."</p>
<pclass="quote-author">- Alan Kay, on Lisp</p>
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<pclass="quote-text">"I object to doing things that computers can do."</p>
<pclass="quote-author">- Olin Shivers</p>
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<pclass="quote-text">"Lisp is a language for doing what you've been told is impossible."</p>
<pclass="quote-author">- Kent Pitman</p>
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<pclass="quote-text">"Lisp is the red pill."</p>
<pclass="quote-author">- John Fraser</p>
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<pclass="quote-text">"Within a couple weeks of learning Lisp I found programming in any other language unbearably constraining."</p>
<pclass="quote-author">- Paul Graham</p>
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<pclass="quote-text">"Programming in Lisp is like playing with the primordial forces of the universe. It feels like lightning between your fingertips. No other language even feels close."</p>
<pclass="quote-author">- Glenn Ehrlich</p>
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<pclass="quote-text">"A Lisp programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing."</p>
<pclass="quote-author">- Alan Perlis</p>
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<pclass="quote-text">"Lisp is the most sophisticated programming language I know. It is literally decades ahead of the competition ... it is not possible (as far as I know) to actually use Lisp seriously before reaching the point of no return."</p>
<pclass="quote-author">- Christian Lynbech, Road to Lisp</p>
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<pclass="quote-text">"[Lisp] has assisted a number of our most gifted fellow humans in thinking previously impossible thoughts."</p>