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rnprince
"One moral of the above story is, of course, that we must be very careful when we give advice to younger people: sometimes they follow it!"

Cute line.

tosh
"The third project I would not like to leave unmentioned is LISP, a fascinating enterprise of a completely different nature. With a few very basic principles at its foundation, it has shown a remarkable stability. Besides that, LISP has been the carrier for a considerable number of in a sense our most sophisticated computer applications. LISP has jokingly been described as “the most intelligent way to misuse a computer”. I think that description 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."
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Dude2018
It's interesting how elegant languages are those least used.