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He didn't know the right people. That's all a police record means in this rotten crime-ridden country.
— Raymond Chandler
It's so hard for women - even nice women - to realize that their bodies are not irresistible.
— Raymond Chandler
The iPhone brand is in worse shape than I thought was even possible. And the implications of that are huge ... The iPhone is in deep trouble.
— Eric S. Raymond
That's the difference between crime and business. For business you gotta have capital. Sometimes I think it's the only difference.
— Raymond Chandler
Everyone's a knucklehead at one point or another.
— Raymond F. Jones
I like Sicilian food. It's real peasant food.
— Raymond Kelly
That morning she pours Teacher's over my belly and licks it off. That afternoon she tries to jump out the window.
— Raymond Carver
To resuscitate can help prolong a patient's life, but giving respect and showing sincerity can add value to it
— Raymond Garcia
Indecision is actually the individual's decision to fail.
— Raymond Charles Barker
As a city, we have to face the reality that New York's minority communities experience a disproportionate share of violent crime.
— Raymond Kelly
Religions tend to disappear with man's good fortune.
— Raymond Queneau
If you're going to risk dying, there's no sense doing it wet, cold and hungry unless absolutely necessary.
— Raymond E. Feist
Trying to guess the enemy's next move is useful; trying to guess what they are thinking is pointless.
— Raymond E. Feist
Man's usual routine is to work and to dream and work and dream.
— Raymond Queneau
It's very rare that someone gets the death penalty for charges of conspiracy, for his influence, for his Svengali-Rasputin act.
— Raymond Pettibon
A man's judgment is best when he can forget himself and any reputation he may have acquired and can concentrate wholly on making the right decisions.
— Raymond A. Spruance
When you're the best, and you know you're the best, and your contemporaries know you're the best, that's a terrific edge.
— Raymond Floyd
I'm a disciple of Raymond Chandler, who said in his essays that there's a quality of redemption in anything that can be called art.
— Michael Connelly
It's a sordid life, but I'm used to it.
— Raymond Chandler
The subject isn't always a help to the photographer, it's like handcuffs.
— Raymond Depardon
Don't ever write anything you don't like yourself and if you do like it, don't take anyone's advice about changing it. They just don't know.
— Raymond Chandler
Did you know in the sea you can find a fish called, SWEETLIPS?Ted and Raymond's Sea Adventure — Rhonda Patton
Whatever's most important to you is your god. If it's not the Rock Christ Jesus, then it's sand!
— Raymond Berry
I am a better cook than I am an actor. If I have any ego, it's about cooking. I'm one of the best cooks ... and I cook in any language.
— Raymond Burr
I don't like your manner," Kingsley said in a voice you could have crack a Brazil nut on."That's all right," I said. "I'm not selling it. — Raymond Chandler
My heart is broken," she goes. "It's turned to a piece of stone. I'm no good. That's what's as bad as anything, that I'm no good anymore.
— Raymond Carver
Software is largely a service industry operating under the persistent but unfounded delusion that it is a manufacturing industry
— Eric S. Raymond
Ray did not but could have said, *quote*Me, I read books [ ... ] How's about you?*closequote*
— Raymond Federman
I was reading Plato's 'The Republic' at age 18, and I can't account fully the electricity that had for me.
— Raymond Moody
Equally, the Internet interprets attempts at proprietary control as threats and mobilizes to defeat them.
— Eric S. Raymond
It's amazing how books change. The chapter you're working on today would not have been the same if you wrote it yesterday or tomorrow.
— Raymond Bolton
A real gimlet is half gin and half Rose's lime juice and nothing else.
— Raymond Chandler
Programmer time is expensive; conserve it in preference to machine time
— Eric S. Raymond
If you're not tough it's hard to survive in this world; and if you're not kind then you don't deserve to survive.
— Raymond Chandler
Prototype, then polish. Get it working before you optimize it
— Eric S. Raymond
I was as empty of life as a scarecrow's pockets.
— Raymond Chandler
My work is more driven by the creative word. It's immersed in other writing and printed work, rather than drawn so much from life or past experience.
— Raymond Pettibon
Any tool should be useful in the expected way, but a truly great tool lends itself to uses you never expected.
— Eric S. Raymond
When you're concentrating on anything that's disruptive in your life, you really don't love anybody.
— Raymond Arroyo
A hard-boiled redhead sang a hard-boiled song in a voice that could have been used to split firewood (Guns at Cyrano's)
— Raymond Chandler
Grovelling is not a substitute for doing your homework.
— Eric S. Raymond
When asked why he doesn't believe in astrology, the logician Raymond Smullyan responds that he's a Gemini and Geminis never believe in astrology.
— John Allen Paulos
If you have the right attitude, interesting problems will find you.
— Eric S. Raymond
If you want to be a cop, it's not for everybody, no question about it, but there's no place like New York City.
— Raymond Kelly
There is no answer. It's okay. But even if it wasn't okay, what am I supposed to do?
— Raymond Carver
The moment a man begins to talk about technique that's proof that he is fresh out of ideas.
— Raymond Chandler
Mother Angelica is proof that we are not limited by other's perceptions, and that God sometimes calls the most unlikely people to great things.
— Raymond Arroyo
Most love stories are nocturnal. That's what makes them so fascinating.
— Raymond Federman
It sounds corny, but I never have avoided the challenges - I relish them - I think it's what make me tick, to a certain extent.
— Raymond Kelly
You like it in jail?''It's not too bad. You don't meet the best people, but who the hell wants to? — Raymond Chandler
When I hear the words social responsibility, I want to reach for my gun.
— Eric S. Raymond
when you enter another's reality, you observe her rules. Then
— Raymond E. Feist
Being able to break security doesn't make you a hacker anymore than being able to hotwire cars makes you an automotive engineer.
— Eric S. Raymond
CSV (fields separated by commas, double quotes used to escape commas, no continuation lines) is rarely found under Unix.
— Eric S. Raymond
Writing is hard work; it's also the best job I've ever had.
— Raymond E. Feist
Alchemists turned into chemistswhen they stopped keeping secrets. — Eric S. Raymond
Raymond Carver is good. I think he'll be appreciated more and more. He's an easy writer to imitate.
— Leslie Fiedler
Release early. Release often. And listen to your customers.
— Eric S. Raymond
Adam's role was to assert and enjoy his sovereignty under God, cultivating the garden into an expanding paradise and protecting it from all harm.
— Raymond C. Ortlund Jr.
Microsoft is not the problem. Microsoft is the symptom.
— Eric S. Raymond
It's wearying, like Caliban buttonholing you in hell and telling you the struggle he's having getting along with himself.
— Derek Raymond
I'm all done with hating you. It's all washed out of me. I hate people hard, but I don't hate them very long.
— Raymond Chandler
I was doing a cheap sneaky job for people I didn't like, but that's what you hire out for, chum. They pay the bills, you dig the dirt.
— Raymond Chandler
I know you'll think this odd, but I find it strangely exhilarating not knowing what's coming next.
— Raymond E. Feist
The truth will always be the truth, no matter how it's told.
— Khali Raymond
I'm killing time and it's dying hard.
— Raymond Chandler
It's strange. You never start out life with the intention of becoming a bankrupt or an alcoholic or a cheat and a thief. Or a liar.
— Raymond Carver
There is a flip side to this. In the Unix world, libraries which are delivered as libraries should come with exerciser programs.
— Eric S. Raymond
Sydney's most famous beach is Bondi. At its southern end is Bondi Baths, an eight-lane, 50-meter saltwater pool built into the cliffs.
— Raymond Bonner
What you remember, it's real. It doesn't matter how accurate your memory of something is, it is real to you. What you perceive as reality is reality.
— Raymond E. Feist
Writing for me is never about quantity. It's always about quality.
— Raymond Bolton
The beginnings of the hacker culture as we know it today can be conveniently dated to 1961, the year MIT acquired the first PDP-1.
— Eric S. Raymond
When your language is nowhere near Turing-complete, syntactic sugar can be your friend.
— Eric S. Raymond
Free markets select for winning solutions.
— Eric S. Raymond
However hard I try to be nice I always end up with my nose in the dirt and my thumb feeling for somebody's eye.
— Raymond Chandler
And we're weighed down by a crappy implementation language (C++).
— Eric S. Raymond
There's literary creation and literary business. When I first got something accepted, it gave my life a validation it didn't otherwise have.
— Raymond Carver
I don't believe in religion, but I do believe in God. There's a big difference between the two.
— Raymond L. Atkins
There's always a latent or inferred image in my writing. And I can almost always assume if I do a drawing that it will eventually have text.
— Raymond Pettibon
The sound of old winter ice breaking at spring's touch,
— Raymond E. Feist
Anybody home, son?" "You ought to know." "How would I know?" "Go - yourself." "That's how people get false teeth." He showed me his in a tight grin.
— Raymond Chandler
It takes a man of unusual character to openly confront his own shortcomings. It's so much more convenient to blame others.
— Raymond E. Feist
And every place and time an author writes about is imaginary, from Oz to Raymond Chandler's L.A. to Dickens's London.
— Connie Willis
It is widely grokked that cats have the hacker nature
— Eric S. Raymond
In the beginning, there were Real Programmers.
— Eric S. Raymond
Alcohol is like love. The first kiss is magic, the second is intimate, the third is routine. After that you take the girl's clothes off.
— Raymond Chandler
Neal had a couple of good ideas and they fit nicely, so that's the way I decided to go.
— Raymond E. Feist
Why the hell hasn't wxPython become the standard GUI for Python yet?
— Eric S. Raymond
