Quotes
Others
"I haven't attached foot pedals to my computer yet, but I do use all the function keys!" -- Don Knuth (on Emacs)
"A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming, is not worth knowing." -- Alan Perlis
"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." -- Guy Steele (on Java)
"The continuation that obeys only obvious stack semantics, O grasshopper, is not the true continuation." -- Guy Steele (on Scheme)
"If McDonald's stopped packaging lettuce with burgers, the number of lettuce users would go down." -- Guy Steele
"Conses don't grow on trees!" -- Gerald Jay Sussman
"The first Lisp interpreter was a result of a programmer ignoring his boss's advice." -- Peter Norvig
"We baked you a cake shaped like the internet!" -- Peter Norvig (to Randall Munroe)
"I would much rather ruffle feathers and make progress than sacrifice progress on the alter of warm fuzziness." -- Joe Corrao
"The pointy-haired boss is a manager who doesn't program." -- Paul Graham
"I want to improve the *very* local economy." -- Chris Gore (gesturing at himself)
"Quotes are officially stupid." -- Chris Gore
"Sleep is a Good Thing." -- Daniel Tauritz
"The Google is not allowed to use The Ruby." -- Yukihiro `Matz' Matsumoto
"I love contrarian views. I disagree with this one, though." -- Marvin on arclanguage.org
"You cannot solve problems by coding, you can only solve them by thinking." -- Ariadne
"I always learn best when I write a compiler." -- Martin Odersky
"No lighthouse sees the entire world." -- Joe Castellano
Me
"Ten-thousand throats may be cut in one night by a dangling pointer."
" 'Written in Haskell,' does not count as a feature."
" 'Written in just about 36000 lines of pure C,' does not count as a feature either."
"Don't tell me conses don't grow on trees, because that's exactly where they grow!"