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Sherman Alexie
“You wouldn't think there is anything life threatening about speech impediments, but let me tell you, there is nothing more dangerous than being a kid with a stutter and a lisp.”
Sherman Alexie, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

Edsger W. Dijkstra
“Lisp has jokingly been called 鈥渢he most intelligent way to misuse a computer鈥�. I think that description is a great compliment because it transmits the full flavor of liberation: it has assisted a number of our most gifted fellow humans in thinking previously impossible thoughts.”
Edsger W. Dijkstra

Terry Pratchett
“On a distant hilltop, twinkling like an early evening star, a white light was flashing.
Blouse lowered his telescope. 鈥楾hey're repeating "CQ",鈥� he said. 鈥楢nd I believe those longer pauses are when they're aiming their tube in different directions. They're looking for their spies. "Seek You", see? Private Igor?鈥�
鈥楾丑耻谤?鈥�
鈥榊ou know how that tube works, don't you?鈥�
鈥極h, yeth, thur. You jutht light a flare in the box, and then it'th just point and click.鈥�
鈥榊ou're not going to answer it, are you, sir?鈥� said Jackrum, horrified.
鈥業 am indeed, sergeant,鈥� said Blouse briskly. 鈥楶rivate Carborundum, please assemble the tube. Manickle, please bring the lantern. I shall need to read the code book.鈥�
鈥楤ut that'll give away our position!鈥� said Jackrum.
鈥楴o, sergeant, because although this term may be unfamiliar to you I intend to what we call "lie",鈥� said Blouse. 鈥業gor, I'm sure you have some scissors, although I'd rather you didn't attempt to repeat the word.鈥�
鈥業 have thome of the appliantheth you mention, thur,鈥� said Igorina stiffly.”
Terry Pratchett, Monstrous Regiment

Paul    Graham
“Quote may seem a bit of a foreign concept, because few other languages have anything like it. It's closely tied to one of the most distinctive features of Lisp: code and data are made out of the same data structures, and the quote operator is the way we distinguish between them.”
Paul Graham

Harold Abelson
“Pascal is for building pyramids -- imposing, breathtaking, static structures built by armies pushing heavy blocks into place. Lisp is for building organisms -- imposing, breathtaking, dynamic structures built by squads fitting fluctuating myriads of simpler organisms into place.”
Harold Abelson; Gerald Jay Sussman; Julie Sussman; Eiichi Wada

Paul    Graham
“If you understand McCarthy's eval, you understand more than just a stage in the history of languages. These ideas are still the semantic core of Lisp today. So studying McCarthy's original paper shows us, in a sense, what Lisp really is. It's not something that McCarthy designed so much as something he discovered. It's not intrinsically a language for AI or for rapid prototyping, or any other task at that level. It's what you get (or one thing you get) when you try to axiomatize computation.”
Paul Graham