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As much as I love a good Greenspun invocation, I don't think this really counts:

> Any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Common Lisp.

isn't about the inevitability of literally implementing a Lisp interpreter.

It's still got a good shot at validating Zawinski's Law of Software Envelopment.

> Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can.

Mostly agreed. Which is why I said "sort-of-validating".

... so that I would be technically correct. Which, as we all know, is the best kind of correct. (Source: Futurama)