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A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.

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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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The best book on programming for the layman is Alice in Wonderland, but that’s because it’s the best book on anything for the layman.
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A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.
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Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle.
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We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat’s next-to-last theorem.
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