This is a fascinating quote. It seems to be a combination of either:
* Greenspun's 10th rule of programming: "Any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad-hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of CommonLisp."
http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?GreenspunsTenthRuleOfProgramming
* James Gosling quoting Guy Steele: "Lisp is a Black Hole: if you try to design something that's not Lisp, but like Lisp, you'll find that the gravitational forces on the design will suck it into the Black Hole, and it will become Lisp".
http://web.archive.org/web/20091201072950/http://blogs.sun.c...
* Greenspun's 10th rule of programming: "Any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad-hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of CommonLisp." http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?GreenspunsTenthRuleOfProgramming
* James Gosling quoting Guy Steele: "Lisp is a Black Hole: if you try to design something that's not Lisp, but like Lisp, you'll find that the gravitational forces on the design will suck it into the Black Hole, and it will become Lisp". http://web.archive.org/web/20091201072950/http://blogs.sun.c...