Lisp isn't a language, it's a building material.

School is basically about one point of view - the one the teacher has or the textbooks have. They don't like the idea of having different points of view.

The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.

The tree of research must be fed from time to time with the blood of bean-counters, for it is its natural manure.

The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.

Understanding- -like civilization, happiness, music, science and a host of other great endeavors--is not a state of being, but a manner of traveling. This great road has no final destination. The journey itself is the reward.

Quite a few people have to believe something is normal before it becomes normal - a sort of 'voting' situation. But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.