A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.
A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.
In English every word can be verbed.
Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
Programmers are not to be measured by their ingenuity and their logic but by the completeness of their case analysis.
Learning French is trivial: the word for horse is cheval, and everything else follows in the same way.