"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 Lisp." - Philip Greenspun
"Lisp isn't a language, it's a building material."- Alan Kay
"The greatest single programming language ever designed" - Alan Kay, on Lisp
"Lisp is a programmable programming language." - John Foderaro, CACM, September 1991
"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." - Eric Raymond, "How to Become a Hacker"
"Lisp is a programmer amplifier." - Martin Rodgers (first said by Chuck Moore about Forth)
Most papers in computer science describe how their author learned what someone else already knew. - Peter Landin (This is a paraphrase. I'd appreciate it if anyone can tell me the exact quote. - pg)
"The only way to learn a new programming language is by writing programs in it." - Kernighan and Ritchie
"SQL, Lisp, and Haskell are the only programming languages that I've seen where one spends more time thinking than typing." - Philip Greenspun
"The continuation that obeys only obvious stack semantics, O grasshopper, is not the true continuation." - Guy Steele
"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 Lisp." - Philip Greenspun
"Lisp isn't a language, it's a building material."- Alan Kay
"The greatest single programming language ever designed" - Alan Kay, on Lisp
"Lisp is a programmable programming language." - John Foderaro, CACM, September 1991
"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." - Eric Raymond, "How to Become a Hacker"
"Lisp is a programmer amplifier." - Martin Rodgers (first said by Chuck Moore about Forth)
Most papers in computer science describe how their author learned what someone else already knew. - Peter Landin (This is a paraphrase. I'd appreciate it if anyone can tell me the exact quote. - pg)
"The only way to learn a new programming language is by writing programs in it." - Kernighan and Ritchie
"SQL, Lisp, and Haskell are the only programming languages that I've seen where one spends more time thinking than typing." - Philip Greenspun
"The continuation that obeys only obvious stack semantics, O grasshopper, is not the true continuation." - Guy Steele
Source: http://www.paulgraham.com/quotes.html