W.J. Raymond Quotes
I looked down at the chessboard. The move with the knight was wrong. I put it back where I had moved it from. Knights had no meaning in this game. It wasn't a game for knights.
However toplofty and idealistic a man may be, he can always rationalize his right to earn money.
A check girl in peach-bloom Chinese pajamas came over to take my hat and disapprove of my clothes. She had eyes like strange sins.
Never underestimate the potential for human stupidity when wealth and power are at stake.
The brave man is not the one without fear but the one who does what he must despite being afraid. To succeed, you must be willing to risk total failure; you must learn this.
This contract is so one-sided that I am astonished to find it written on both sides of the paper.
There is nothing mysterious, as some have tried to maintain, about the applicability of mathematics. What we get by abstraction from something can be returned.
Let Ra grant to me a view of the Disk (the Sun), and a sight of Ah (the Moon) unfailingly each day. Let my Ba-soul come forth to walk about hither and thither and whithersoever it pleaseth.
It is the creator of fiction's point of view; it is the character who interests him. Sometimes he wants to convince the reader that the story he is telling is as interesting as universal history.
We have gotten away from this double aspect of either putting the character back into historical events or of making a historical event of his very life.
The source of sorrows lies not in leaving life, but in leaving that which gives it meaning.
Its very comforting to know that you are faced with a difficult job. If someone gives you a job which shows every sign of being easy, then you are a prisoner of effortlessness.
All of us, all of us, all of us trying to save our immortal souls, some ways seemingly more round about and mysterious than others. We are having a good time here. But hope all will be revealed soon.
It is a language which is being molded by writers to do delicate things and yet be in the grasp of superficially educated people.
Some loves come unbidden like winds from the sea, and others grow from the seeds of friendship.
...you can't let something that'll probably never happen ruin your life. You're only helping to make it a self-fulfilling prophecy
In communist Russia, their major organ was Pravda, which means "truth." The Russians knew how to read between the lines. They didn't take their literature literally.
Anyone who conceives of writing as an agreeable stroll towards a middle-class life-style will never write anything but crap.
Homeschool history tells of more than two centuries of home-teaching influence on American education, although it has been largely obscured by the drawn curtains of conventional bias.
It was a smooth silvery voice that matched her hair. It had a tiny tinkle in it, like bells in a doll's house. I thought that was silly as soon as I thought of it.
The tragedy of life, Howard, is not that the beautiful die young, but that they grow old and mean. It will not happen to me.
I had a funny feeling as I saw the house disappear, as though I had written a poem and it was very good and I had lost it and would never remember it again.
If you begin feeling beaten, you will achieve nothing. If you fight, you will perhaps have a chance of achieving something.
A critical factor in its success was that the X developers were willing to give the sources away for free in accordance with the hacker ethic, and able to distribute them over the Internet.
And for any agents or proxy of the regime interested in asking me questions face to face, I've got some bullets slathered in pork fat to make you feel extra special welcome.
Software is largely a service industry operating under the persistent but unfounded delusion that it is a manufacturing industry
On first blush this looks to be about money, but it is about power. Is power going to go to the information monopolies, or will it go to developers and users?.
Equally, the Internet interprets attempts at proprietary control as threats and mobilizes to defeat them.
