A Lisp Programmer Knows The Value Of

In Programming, As In Everything Else, To Be In Error Is To Be Reborn.

There Are Two Ways To Write Error-free Programs; Only The Third One Works.

Computer Science Is Embarrassed By The Computer.

I Think That It's Extraordinarily Important That We In Computer Science Keep Fun In Computing. When It Started Out, It Was An Awful Lot Of Fun. Of Course, The Paying Customers Got Shafted Every Now And Then, And After A While We Began To Take Their Complaints Seriously. We Began To Feel As If We Really Were Responsible For The Successful, Error-free Perfect Use Of These Machines. I Don't Think We Are. I Think We're Responsible For Stretching Them, Setting Them Off In New Directions, And Keeping Fun In The House. I Hope The Field Of Computer Science Never Loses Its Sense Of Fun.

A Good Programming Language Is A Conceptual Universe For Thinking About Programming.