It goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program. What fun is there in making plans, acquiring discipline in organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail and learning to be self-critical?

Don't have good ideas if you aren't willing to be responsible for them.

The best book on programming for the layman is Alice in Wonderland, but that's because it's the best book on anything for the layman.

We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.

Optimization hinders evolution. Everything should be built top-down, except the first time. Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.

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.