Transcript of Richard Stallman's speech at the International Lisp Conference, 28 Oct 2002. Since none of my usual speeches have anything to do with Lisp, none of them were appropriate for today. So I'm going to have to wing it. Since I've done enough things in my career connected with Lisp I should be able to say something interesting. My first experience with Lisp was when I read the Lisp 1.5 man