Cory Doctorow Quotes - Page 2

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• Engineers are all basically high-functioning autistics who have no idea how normal people do stuff.

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  Ideas, People, Stuff

  Cory Doctorow (2015). “Eastern Standard Tribe”, p.137, Booklassic

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• Once you get to naming your laptop, you know that you're really having a deep relationship with it.

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  Laptops, Deep Relationship, Knows

  Cory Doctorow (2010). “Little Brother”, p.85, Macmillan

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• Put simply, I want to treat my readers as partners and not crooks. There is no future in calling your most active promoters crooks.

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  Crooks, Calling, Want

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• It's our goddamed city! It's our goddamed country. No terrorist can take it from us for so long as we're free. Once we're not free, the terrorists win! Take it back! You're young enough and stupid enough not to know that you can't possibly win, so you're the only ones who can lead us to victory! Take it back!

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  Country, Stupid, Winning

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• ... the Kindle is a "roach motel" device: its license terms and DRM ensure that books can check in, but they can't check out.

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  Book, Drm, Roaches

  Cory Doctorow (2011). “Context”, p.102, Tachyon Publications

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• Open platforms and experimental amateurs eventually beat out the spendy, slick pros. Relying on incumbents to produce your revolutions is not a good strategy. They're apt to take all the stuff that makes their products great and try to use technology to charge you extra for it, or prohibit it altogether.

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  Technology, Trying, Stuff

  "Why I Won't Buy an iPad (And Think You Shouldn't, Either)". boingboing.net. April 02, 2010.

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• It's part of a cycle of stories I'm writing where I deconstruct classic science fiction.

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  Writing, Fiction, Stories

  Interview with Richard Koman, archive.oreilly.com. March 4, 2005.

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• I think that Utopia is a theory of human action.

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  Thinking, Action, Utopia

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• The big problem isn’t piracy, it’s obscurity.

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  Obscurity, Problem, Bigs

  Cory Doctorow (2010). “Little Brother”, p.116, Macmillan

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• If surgeons don't get surgeon's block, then why are you allowed to get writer's block?

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  Block, Surgeons, Ifs

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• My feelings towards Scott Card are pretty mixed. Politically, he and I are pretty far apart.

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  Feelings, Cards

  Interview with Richard Koman, archive.oreilly.com. March 4, 2005.

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• When you teach your students that it's "economically rational" to commit crimes where the fines for misconduct are lower than the expected return on the crime, you instill a professional ethic that has no room for morals.

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  Rooms, Return, Ethics

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• Skipping school isn't a crime. It's an infraction. They're totally different.

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  School, Different, Crime

  Cory Doctorow (2010). “Little Brother”, p.23, Macmillan

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• I'm not a lawyer I'm a kind of mouthpiece/activist type, though occasionally they shave me and stuff me into my Bar Mitzvah suit and send me to a standards body or the UN to stir up trouble. I spend about three weeks a month on the road doing completely weird stuff like going to Microsoft to talk about DRM.

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  Microsoft, Body, Stuff

  Cory Doctorow (2008). “Content: Selected Essays on Technology, Creativity, Copyright, and the Future of the Future”

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• Funny, for all surveillance, Osama bin Laden is still free—and we're not. Guess who's winning the "war on terror?

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  War, Winning, Surveillance

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• It's hard not to like Asimov; he's a really likable guy.

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  Guy, Hard

  Interview with Richard Koman, archive.oreilly.com. March 4, 2005.

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• If this prinicpal thinks blogging isn't educational, he needs his head examined: he should be seeking out every student blogger in the school and giving them special time to blog more - and giving them extra credit besides.

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  Funny, Educational, School

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• Like all security, privacy is hard.

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  Privacy, Hard, Security

  "We cannot afford to be indifferent to internet spying" by Cory Doctorow, www.theguardian.com. December 9, 2013.

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• He hated it when adults told him he only felt the way he did because he was young. As if being young was like being insane or drunk, like the convictions he held were hallucinations caused by a mental illness that could only be cured by waiting five years.

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  Years, Drunk, Waiting

  Cory Doctorow (2015). “For The Win”, p.116, Booklassic

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• I choose YouTube over telly.

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  Youtube

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• ... I think that I was too self-centered to ever develop good skills as a peacemaker. In my younger days, I assumed that it was because I was smarter than everyone else, with no patience for explaining things in short words for mouthbreathers who just didn't get it.

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  Thinking, Self, Skills

  Cory Doctorow (2015). “Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom”, p.75, Booklassic

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• Every time I go past a cinema and see a queue out the door, I think, look at those fools, every penny they spend is turned into profits that are used to pass laws imprisoning their own children. Can't they see?

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  Children, Past, Thinking

  Cory Doctorow (2012). “Pirate Cinema”, p.154, Macmillan

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• Disney is a delight, someone who ... sweeps those around him along on his dream.

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  Dream, Delight

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• No one should do a job he can do in his sleep.

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  Jobs, Sleep, Should

  Cory Doctorow (2006). “Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town”, p.247, Macmillan

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• The right to freedom of association is fine, but why shouldn't the cops be allowed to mine your social network to figure out if you're hanging out with gangbangers and terrorists?

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  Association, Social Network, Cop

  Cory Doctorow (2010). “Little Brother”, p.138, Macmillan

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