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

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 soul hardly ever realizes it, but whether he is a believer or not, his loneliness is really a homesickness for God.

I'm not always sincere. One can't be in this world, you know.

A person either buys his dream by surrendering his excuses or he buys his excuses by surrendering his dream.

You live more in five minutes on a bike like this going flat out than some people live in a lifetime.

I will not date a woman from China, because that is a big red flag.

I have absolutely no fear of death. Why would I? There's nothing to fear-only joy to experience.

You might be a redneck if you keep a fly swatter in the front seat of the car so you can reach your kids in the back seat of the car.

The symphonic orchestras have sponsors, people who give them endowments, and I think it should be the same way with jazz - because this is a national treasure.

Bands-- enough with the crayon face-paint-- you're better than that.

Gadgets are usually the last thing I think about, and if there's something new, I'll get to the store for the final shipment of the first generation when it's on sale. So I have last year's stuff.