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 Famous quote:
<< So... the best way to compare programming languages is by analogy to cars. Lisp is a whole family of languages, and can be broken down approximately as follows:
* Scheme is an exotic sports car. Fast. Manual transmission. No radio.
* Emacs Lisp is a 1984 Subaru GL 4WD: "the car that's always in front of you."
* Common Lisp is Howl's Moving Castle.
>>

 Comparison: if somehow you make a pruned-down Howl's Moving Castle, you can probably never ever, whatever you do, no matter how much effort you invest, make it into something as small and light as the Subaru, let alone the sports car.

is funny, but inaccurate.  Common Lisp, more precisely the common-lisp package has slightly fewer than 1000 symbols, but a reasonably current Emacs implementation has about 20000.

Presumably the quote is from https://go.dev/talks/2012/splash.article#TOC_5., but I can find neither "Common Lisp" nor "bicycle"
I found it on https://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/11/ejacs-javascript-interpreter-for-emacs.html
Liam cited it correctly in his article https://www.theregister.com/software/2023/11/23/revival-of-medley/interlisp-elegant-weapon-sharpened/1379493