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Quotes About John McCarthy

One of the most important and fascinating of all computer languages is Lisp (standing for "List Processing"), which was invented by John McCarthy around the time Algol was invented.
~ Douglas Hofstadter
John McCarthy, a Santa Claus lookalike who coined the term artificial intelligence
~ Walter Isaacson
1956 conference at Dartmouth organized by John McCarthy and Marvin Minsky, where the field of artificial intelligence was launched.
~ Walter Isaacson
Lisp was John McCarthy's invention.
~ Unknown
Stanford was out; John McCarthy was as unenthusiastic about the network as ever.
~ Unknown