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“Quote may seem a bit of a foreign concept, because few other languages have anything like it. It's closely tied to one of the most distinctive features of Lisp: code and data are made out of the same data structures, and the quote operator is the way we distinguish between them.”

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“Pascal is for building pyramids -- imposing, breathtaking, static structures built by armies pushing heavy blocks into place. Lisp is for building organisms -- imposing, breathtaking, dynamic structures built by squads fitting fluctuating myriads of simpler organisms into place.”

Computer Science Pascal Lisp

Author:Harold Abelson; Gerald Jay Sussman; Julie Sussman; Eiichi Wada

“If you understand McCarthy's eval, you understand more than just a stage in the history of languages. These ideas are still the semantic core of Lisp today. So studying McCarthy's original paper shows us, in a sense, what Lisp really is. It's not something that McCarthy designed so much as something he discovered. It's not intrinsically a language for AI or for rapid prototyping, or any other task at that level. It's what you get (or one thing you get) when you try to axiomatize computation.”

Language Programming Artificial Intelligence Semantics Computation Lisp Prototyping Axiomatics Eval John Mccarthy

Author:Paul Graham

“You know Morse Code?” Avian asked as we walked up. “My grandpa thought it was a fun game when I was little,” West said as he rubbed his eyes again. ”That’s a scientist’s version of fun for you.”

Games Fun Scientists Morse Code

Book:Eden

Source: Eden

“Perhaps we now need to engineer scarcity in our communications, in our interactions, and in the things we consume. Otherwise our lives become like a Morse code transmission that's lacking breaks - a swarm of noise blanketing the valuable data beneath.”

Life Communication Noise Data Consumerism Modern Life Morse Code

Author:Michael Harris

“SEND MORE BOOKS PLEASE. STOP ···/·/-·/-··//--/---/·-·/·//-···/---/---/-·-/···//·--·/·-··/·/·-/···/·/·-·-·-//···/-/---/·--·//”

Humor Fun Morse Code

Author:Kim Krogh

“To me death is a confirmation of life, something always connected and eternal. It is not dark, not the end, not a disaster - it is magnificent, and exhilarating; it is your soul, and your love, concentrated into their purest forms. Dying, you become connected to the collective energy everywhere all at once, which is itself a kind of divinity. And it is a fierce teacher. Dying I learned the futility and temporary nature of hatred, ranged as it is against the permanence of love. Though fear and hatred are the flashiest and sometimes the most powerful human emotions, they are merely the hare facing off against the tortoise of love. Love slowly, quietly, and patiently waits for hate to simply burn out. It requires so much more energy to hate than to love, and love has all the time in the world. The only way love wins is across a span of time - it's not an instant fix to anything, but it always wins.”

Love Life Death Time Hate Energy Eternal

Book:My Next Breath

Source: My Next Breath

“Chance likes to ride in back, standing up at red lights and pounding on the roof in (what he insists is) Morse code. We won't mention that to Dad.”

Humor Chance Morse Code

Book:Made of Stars

Source: Made of Stars

“The plethora of sibilants in the sentence still offended his ear, but he saw no way of amending them without using what were, to his mind, inferior synonyms.”

Sibilance Sibilants

Book:The Plague

Source: The Plague

“External beauty is certainly cool to admire, but when worshipped - it eclipses internal shine.”

Worship Brilliance Material Idol External Beauty

Book:From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph over Death and Conscious Encounters With the Divine Presence

Source: From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph over Death and Conscious Encounters With the Divine Presence

“How could I tell him what was actually eating at me, rotting on the inside? How could I do that to my mother and father—make them as sad as I knew they’d be? At least if I carried my Secret alone, there would be only one casualty.”

Depression Self Destruction Internalize

Book:Eggshell Skull

Source: Eggshell Skull