APL is a mistake, carried through to perfection.

The tools we use have a profound and devious influence on our thinking habits, and therefore on our thinking abilities.

The prisoner falls in love with his chains.

Write a paper promising salvation, make it a "structured" something or a "virtual" something, or "abstract," "distributed" or "higher-order" or "applicative" and you can almost be certain of having started a new cult.

Mentally mutilated potential programmers beyond hope of regeneration.

LISP has jokingly been described as "the most intelligent way to misuse a computer." I think that description is a great compliment because it transmits the full flavour of liberation: it has assisted a number of our most gifted fellow humans in thinking previously impossible thoughts.

Programming in Basic causes brain damage.