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.

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

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

Life is a personal race. Run the race of life with all endurance.

During the war, I promised the dead I would never forget them. I stared at them, barely able to move myself. Pretended I was one of them. To this day I can recall the light in the ruins.

He holds his hand out for me to see it like he’s cradling something delicate or breakable, an egg or like, his heart.

I would let my child do whatever made their heart sing

Pop music should be about young people.

People are going to judge you all the time no matter what you do...Don't worry about other people. Worry about you.

For every man there exists bait he cannot resist swallowing.

Were it not for gravity one man might hurl another by a puff of his breath into the depths of space, beyond recall for all eternity.

O tongue you are an endless treasure. O tongue, you are also an endless disease.

I'm just going to play whatever game is in front of me.