Quotes
I haven't attached foot pedals to my computer yet, but I do use all the function keys! -- Don Knuth (on Emacs)
A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming, is not worth knowing. -- Alan Perlis
We were not out to win over the Lisp programmers; we were after the C++ programmers. We managed to drag a lot of them about halfway to Lisp. -- Guy Steele (on Java)
The continuation that obeys only obvious stack semantics, O grasshopper, is not the true continuation. -- Guy Steele (on Scheme)
If McDonald's stopped packaging lettuce with burgers, the number of lettuce users would go down. -- Guy Steele
Conses don't grow on trees! -- Gerald Jay Sussman
The first Lisp interpreter was a result of a programmer ignoring his boss's advice. -- Peter Norvig
We baked you a cake shaped like the internet! -- Peter Norvig (to Randall Munroe)
I would much rather ruffle feathers and make progress than sacrifice progress on the alter of warm fuzziness. -- Joe Corrao
The pointy-haired boss is a manager who doesn't program. -- Paul Graham
I want to improve the *very* local economy. -- Chris Gore (gesturing at himself)
Quotes are officially stupid. -- Chris Gore
Sleep is a Good Thing. -- Daniel Tauritz
The Google is not allowed to use The Ruby. -- Yukihiro `Matz' Matsumoto
I love contrarian views. I disagree with this one, though. -- Marvin on arclanguage.org
You cannot solve problems by coding, you can only solve them by thinking. -- Ariadne
I always learn best when I write a compiler. -- Martin Odersky
No lighthouse sees the entire world. -- Joe Castellano
Ten-thousand throats may be cut in one night by a dangling pointer. -- Ray Myers
'Written in Haskell,' does not count as a feature. -- Ray Myers
'Written in just about 36000 lines of pure C,' does not count as a feature either. -- Ray Myers
Don't tell me conses don't grow on trees, because that's exactly where they grow! -- Ray Myers