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  • That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted.

    George Boole (1854). “An Investigation of the Laws of Thought: On which are Founded the Mathematical Theories of Logic and Probabilities”, p.24
  • There's nothing wrong with a lisp.

    Lisp  
    Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
  • Imprisoned in every fat man a thin one is wildly signalling to be let out.

    Men   Literature   Fats  
    "Cyril Connolly: journal and memoir".
  • The continuation that obeys only obvious stack semantics, O grasshopper, is not the true continuation.

  • The greatest single programming language ever designed

  • Voices come to me but to maintain them is hard work. They go away just as easily, so I have to remember them and that takes work. With Sid, I needed to make sure you could understand what he is saying, his enunciation. Sometimes I couldn't even say my own name [his name] in his voice. It sounds like 'Shid', it sounds a bit like he has a lisp.

    Hard Work   Names   Voice  
    "Ice Age 2 - John Leguizamo (Sid) interview". Interview with Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.
  • LISP has jokingly been described as "the most intelligent way to misuse a computer." I think that description is a great compliment because it transmits the full flavour of liberation: it has assisted a number of our most gifted fellow humans in thinking previously impossible thoughts.

    "The Humble Programmer". Edsger Dijkstra's ACM Turing Award lecture, "Communications of the ACM", Volume 15, No. 10, www.cs.utexas.edu. October 1972.
  • I have heard of your paintings too, well enough; God has given you one face, and you make yourselves another: you jig, you amble, and you lisp, and nick-name God's creatures, and make your wantonness your ignorance. Go to, I'll no more on't; it hath made me mad.

    Ignorance   Names   Mad  
    William Shakespeare (2013). “Making Sense of Hamlet! a Students Guide to Shakespeare's Play (Includes Study Guide, Biography, and Modern Retelling)”, p.201, BookCaps Study Guides
  • This does not mean that I fail to recognise that Lisp is still #1 for key algorithmic techniques such as recursion and condescension. It just means that I have no idea how, or indeed if, Lisp handles exceptions.

    Mean   Keys   Ideas  
  • It thunders, howls, roars, hisses, whistles, blusters, hums, growls, rumbles, squeaks, groans, sings, crackles, cracks, rattles, flickers, clicks, snarls, tumbles, whimpers, whines, rustles, murmurs, crashes, clucks, to gurgle, tinkles, blows, snores, claps, to lisp, to cough, it boils, to scream, to weep, to sob, to croak, to stutter, to lisp, to coo, to breathe, to clash, to bleat, to neigh, to grumble, to scrape, to bubble. These words, and others like them, which express sounds are more than mere symbols: they are a kind of hieroglyphics for the ear.

    Blow   Sound   Cracks  
  • Lisp isn't a language, it's a building material.

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

    Usenet article "Perl and XEmacs", groups.google.com. August 16, 1997.
  • While Europe's eye is fix'd on mighty things, The fate of empires and the fall of kings; While quacks of State must each produce his plan, And even children lisp the Rights of Man; Amid this mighty fuss just let me mention, The Rights of Woman merit some attention.

    Robert Burns, Robert Chambers (1838). “The Poetical Works of Robert Burns. To which are Now Added, Notes Illustrating Historical, Personal, and Local Allusions. [The Editor's Preface Signed: R. C., I.e. Robert Chambers.]”, p.85
  • Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute.

    "Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs" by Gerald Jay Sussman and Hal Abelson, (Preface to the first edition), 1979.
  • Whose cruel idea was it for the word “lisp” to have an “s” in it?

    Funny   Humor   Ideas  
  • You Jig, you amble, and you lisp.

    William Shakespeare (2001). “Hamlet”, p.220, Classic Books Company
  • Take Lisp, you know its the most beautiful language in the world -- at least up until Haskell came along.

  • Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.

    Cancer   Sugar   Causes  
    "Epigrams on Programming". ACM SIGPLAN Notices 17 (9), pp. 7-13, pu.inf.uni-tuebingen.de. September 1982.
  • We lisp in numbers, in the U.S. We are deluged by ample, often mysterious statistics. ... Like many in this country, I have come to regard statistics with doubt and merely as a hint of the probable shape of fact.

    Country   Data   Numbers  
    Martha Gellhorn (1988). “The View from the Ground”, p.280, Atlantic Monthly Press
  • My favorite programming languages are Lisp and C. However, since around 1992 I have worked mainly on free software activism, which means I am too busy to do much programming. Around 2008 I stopped doing programming projects.

    Mean   Language   Busy  
    "How I do my computing". stallman.org. 2006.
  • [Emacs] is written in Lisp, which is the only computer language that is beautiful.

    "In the Beginning... Was the Command Line". Essay by Neal Stephenson, 1999.
  • I had gone away from Twitter because before people had been so mean to me. Talking about my lisp and my enormous forehead and all these things. I do have a lisp, I do have a forehead I know you could land a plane on, it's no mystery to me. I just didn't have the skin for it.

    Mean   Talking   Land  
  • I study much, and the more I study, the oftener I go back to those first principles which are so simple that childhood itself can lisp them.

  • Lisp was far more powerful and flexible than any other language of its day; in fact, it is still a better design than most languages of today, twenty-five years later. Lisp freed ITS's hackers to think in unusual and creative ways. It was a major factor in their successes, and remains one of hackerdom's favorite languages.

  • Lisp doesn't look any deader than usual to me.

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

    "How long is the average Internet discussion forum posting?". Philip Greenspun's Weblog, blogs.harvard.edu. March 7, 2005.
  • The problem with Maigret is he hasn't got a limp, and he hasn't got a lisp, and he hasn't got a French accent, or a particular love of opera... or all those other things that people tend to attach to many fictional detectives. He's just an ordinary guy doing an extraordinary job, in a very interesting time.

    Source: news.tvguide.co.uk
  • Why did I write? whose sin to me unknown Dipt me in ink, my parents', or my own? As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame, I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came.

    Alexander Pope (1873). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope Edited with Notes and Introductory Memoir by Adolphus William Ward”, p.274
  • 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. Once you learn Lisp you will see what is missing in most other languages.

    "How I Do My Computing". Personal Website, www.stallman.org.
  • Lisp is still #1 for key algorithmic techniques such as recursion and condescension.

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