Favourite Lisp quotes

A lot of these I've seen before, but Bill Clementson has a list of Lisp quotes, the idea being to sow the seed that causes people to learn Lisp.

My favourites:

"…Please don't assume Lisp is only useful for Animation and Graphics, AI, Bioinformatics, B2B and E-Commerce, Data Mining, EDA/Semiconductor applications, Expert Systems, Finance, Intelligent Agents, Knowledge Management, Mechanical CAD, Modeling and Simulation, Natural Language, Optimization, Research, Risk Analysis, Scheduling, Telecom, and Web Authoring just because these are the only things they happened to list."

Kent Pitman

"The problem with Lisp is it makes you so damned smug."

Jesse Bowman

"If someone asks me who I am, and if I'm among ordinary people, I tell them I'm a computer hacker. If I'm among computer people I tell them I'm a Unix hacker. If I'm among Unix people I tell them I'm a Linux hacker. And if I'm among Linux people I tell them I'm a Lisp hacker."

James Crippen

Posted at 2004-03-15 07:25:01 by Richard • Link to Favourite Lisp quo…
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