Some people prefer not to commingle the functional, lambda-calculus part of a language with the parts that do side effects. It seems they believe in the separation of Church and state.

If you give someone Fortran, he has Fortran. If you give someone Lisp, he has any language he pleases

We were not out to win over the Lisp programmers; we were after the C++ programmers. We managed to drag a lot of them about halfway to Lisp.

The continuation that obeys only obvious stack semantics, O grasshopper, is not the true continuation.

As far as I can tell, there are two basic (kissing) rules: 1. Don't bite anything without permission. 2. The human tongue is like wasabi: it's very powerful, and should be used sparingly.

We have everything within us for our greatness and for our destruction. It comes back to what we think about.

It's hard to be wrongfully accused, but it's worse when the people looking down on you are clods who have never read a book or traveled more than twenty miles from the place they were born.

The newspapers! Sir, they are the most villainous — licentious — abominable — infernal — Not that I ever read them — no — I make it a rule never to look into a newspaper.

Violence begins where knowledge ends.

Books and marriage go ill together.

The good life is the best preparation for bad times.

We're all in trouble, and we all need to sort of pick up the pieces and start to exercise more and really be careful with the food.

Man is not a being who stands still, he is a being in the process of becoming. The more he enables himself to become, the more he fulfills his true mission.

When someone mentions the gracefulness of the night sky, climb up on the roof and dance and say, like this?