I finally understood that the half page of code on the bottom of page 13 of the Lisp 1.5 manual was Lisp in itself. These were “Maxwell’s Equations of Software!

— Alan Kay, A Conversation with Alan Kay (2005)

Source: http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1039523

From the 2004–05 ACM Queue interview "A Conversation with Alan Kay".

Topics: programming