Lisp, the sacred language of the now and forever

La lingua sacra ed eterna

I can feel the godforce emanating from it.

You will soon have your God and you will construct it with your own hands.

LISP is a mental attitude rather than a programming language. It uses a certain process of the mind expressed spontaneously through keyboard. I'm concerned with retaining that process.

LISP is an open-ended programming language for open minds.

Anyone can learn Lisp in a few minutes, but nobody could master lisping in a thousand years.

It bugs me when people try to analyze Lisp as a mathematical theorem. It's not. It's feeling.

Lisp, for me, has always been a place where anything is possible--a refuge, a magical world where anyone can go, where all kinds of people can come together, and anything can happen. We are limited only by our imagination.

I hate static languages. I have to change language to my own way of doing it. That's all I know.

One thing I like about Lisp, kid, is that I don't know what's going to happen next. Do you?

The whole thing of programming LISP is not to control it but to be swept away by it. If you're swept away by it you can't wait to do it again and the same magical moments always come.

My own feelings about the direction in which LISP should go are that there should be much less stress on static exhibitionism and much more on dynamic content, on what might be termed humanity in programming and the freedom to express all that you want.

Not to deny that LISP is a thinking people's programming language, but when I'm lisping if I ever catch myself thinking, I'm in trouble--I know something is wrong.

Lispness is not a state of mind, It's a fact of life!

Surrender your whole being to LISP, and gravity disappears...with few macros, one could write code as deep as the ocean.

Macros are to Lisp what yeast is to bread--without it, it's flat.

Recursion is the ability to talk to oneself.

Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity. — Charles Mingus

Lisp is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your REPL.

It is becoming increasingly difficult to decide where LISP starts or where it ends, or even where the borderline lies between between programming in general and LISP. I feel there is no boundary line.

LISP is what we need when other languages fail us, but we cannot remain silent.

"Lisp" stands for "Lisp Is Syntactically Pure"

If it ain't Lisp, it's crap.