Lisp is worth learning for the profound enlightenment experience you will have when you finally get it; that experience will make you a better programmer for the rest of your days, even if you never actually use Lisp itself a lot.

我不是女权主义者，我是人文主义者。

In economics, the devil is often in the details.

世界可能是卑鄙的，但人们不必如此，如果他们拒绝的话。

Beware of the Turing tar-pit in which everything is possible but nothing of interest is easy.

晏子春秋

语言是我们思想的镜子。