"Lisp is still #1 for key algorithmic techniques such as recursion and condescension."

“Believe me when I tell you that thrift of time will repay you in after life, with a usury of profit beyond your most sanguine dreams; and that waste of it will make you dwindle, alike in intellectual and moral stature, beyond your darkest reckoning.”

“Hope of ill gain is the beginning of loss.”

“Listening to music as preparation or background for your work brings you into a creative mood... choose one type of music to calm down, another to reach a higher energy level, depending on the artwork you are doing.”

“Music - not just the lyrics, but the music itself - expresses confused or illicit passions: rage, lust, envy, frustration, channeling these energies and creating an outlet for them.”

“In film and television you have to be able to see the whole picture in a different way than you do on the stage because you shoot out of order and you're working with technology.”

“I don't smoke, I don't drink, I don't do drugs. I shop, okay?”

“The past. The Golden Age of the past. What a nostalgia we all feel for it. Yet we don't want it when we get it. Try the South Seas.”

“The liberals can understand everything but people who don't understand them.”

Source : In John Cohen Essential Lenny Bruce (1970) p. 59