Giving up on assembly language was the apple in our Garden of Eden: Languages whose use squanders machine cycles are sinful. The LISP machine now permits LISP programmers to abandon bra and fig-leaf.

You could be whatever you wanna be, just turn yourself into anything you think that you could never be.

Every day I discover more and more beautiful things. It’s enough to drive one mad. I have such a desire to do everything.

绝不能为了速度而牺牲质量。