If you want a language that tries to lock up all the sharp objects and fire-making implements, use Pascal or Ada: the Nerf languages, harmless fun fo…

- Scott Fahlman

Common Lisp is politics, not art.

- Scott Fahlman

If you can't take the heat, don't tickle the dragon.

- Scott Fahlman

In case you're not a computer person, I should probably point out that 'Real Soon Now' is a technical term meaning 'sometime before the heat-death of…

- Scott Fahlman

If you are always pressing the envelope, you will suffer many paper cuts.

- Scott Fahlman