What is your favorite misconception about Lisp?

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That all the parentheses make code unreadable. After about two weeks, and with a decent text editor, you just stop noticing them. [ETA - just found a quote by long-time lisper Kenny Tilton: "Parentheses? What parentheses? I haven't noticed any parentheses since my first month of Lisp programming. I like to ask people who complain about parentheses in Lisp if they are bothered by all the spaces between words in a newspaper..."]