Computer programming is like the ability or skill to see what Picasso saw from all the different angles at once. If it is an art, the crucial element of art is to look at things from an angle that produces new insight or at least has that potential.

— Erik Naggum, Re: Guide to Lisp, v1.20

Source: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.lisp/msg/f7bc99564506e851

From a Usenet article.

Topics: programming, creativity