What's so special about Lisp?

There are some remarkable claims about Lisp out there. Some are
substantiated and there are so many that they cannot all be wrong, it
would seem to me.

http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html

http://www.lambdassociates.org/blog/bipolar.htm

& in general

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Lisp_programming_language

Disclaimer: the following is all my best-guess approximations to what's
going on, after a LOT of effort, reading, discussion, more reading, and
in a few cases, going to very smart people and feeding them and
interviewing them until they can find sufficiently brain-dead
oversimplifications of things that my stupid non-programmer mind can
comprehend. I may have this all to cock.
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