Cory Doctorow Quotes - Page 3

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• The real damage from terrorist attacks doesn't come from the explosion. The real damage is done after the explosion, by the victims, who repeatedly and determinedly attack themselves, giving over reason in favor of terror... Terrorism is about magnifying one mediagenic act of violence into one hundred billion acts of terrorized authoritarian idiocy.

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  Real, Damage Is Done, Giving

  "BBC Photographer Prevented From Shooting St Paul's Because He Might Be 'Al Qaeda Operative'". boingboing.net. November 30, 2009.

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• The companies are multinational--why should labor still stick to borders?

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  Borders, Sticks, Should

  Cory Doctorow (2015). “For The Win”, p.187, Booklassic

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• It's not necessarily about what career you pick. It's about how you do what you do.

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  Careers, Picks

  Cory Doctorow (2006). “Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town”, p.147, Macmillan

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• I'd never been a tall guy, and the girls I'd dated had all been my height--teenaged girls grow faster than guys, which is a cruel trick of nature.

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  Girl, Guy, Height

  Cory Doctorow (2010). “Little Brother”, p.188, Macmillan

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• For decades, computers have been helping us to remember, but now it's time for them to help us to ignore.

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  Helping, Remember, Computer

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

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• Write even when the world is chaotic.

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  Writing, World, Chaotic

  Twitter post from Jun 18, 2017

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• Everyone wants a definition of creativity that makes what they do into something special and what everyone else does into nothing special. But the fact is, we're all creative. We come up with weird and interesting ideas all the time. The biggest difference between 'creators' isn't their imagination - it's how hard they work. Ideas are easy. Doing stuff is hard.

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  Creativity, Ideas, Differences

  Cory Doctorow (2012). “Pirate Cinema”, p.208, Macmillan

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• Most of the books, music and movies ever released are not available for sale, anywhere in the world. In the brief time that P2P nets have flourished, the ad-hoc masses of the Internet have managed to put just about *everything* online. What's more, they've done it far cheaper than any other archiving/revival effort ever.

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  Book, Effort, World

  Creative Commons Interview, creativecommons.org. August 1, 2005.

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• Technology giveth and technology taketh away.

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  Technology

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

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• Carlton Mellick III is one of bizarro fiction's most talented practitioners, a virtuoso of the surreal, science fictional tale.

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  Fiction, Tales, Surreal

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• If the best way to learn to succeed is to fail as fast as possible, then the second-best way is to watch someone else fail as fast as possible. Watching someone else screw up is a kind of rehearsal for your own eventual downfall. A close observation of someone else's attempt to resolve a difficulty is a great way to acquire real-world insight into whether and when to deploy their method in your own times of trouble.

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  Real, Screw Ups, Watches

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• The idea that bigger haystacks have more needles in them is dumb on its face

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  Ideas, Dumb, Faces

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• Stop in the middle of a sentence, leaving a rough edge for you to start from the nest day - that way, you can write three or five words without being “creative” and before you know it, you're writing.

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  Writing, Rough Edges, Creative

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• It is not gender, nor age, nor race, but your ability to work hard at what you love.

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  Hard Work, Race, Age

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• Novels for me are how I find out what's going on in my own head. And so that's a really useful and indeed critical thing to do when you do as many of these other things as I do.

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  Novel, Things To Do, Critical

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

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• I don't know anything about press conferences." "Oh, just Google it. I'm sure someone's written an article on holding a successful one. I mean, if the President can manage it, I'm sure you can. He looks like he can barely tie his shoes without help.

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  Mean, Successful, Shoes

  Cory Doctorow (2010). “Little Brother”, p.230, Macmillan

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• Take it from someone who's read the Wikipedia entry: this is how the Ottoman Empire was won: madden horsemen fueled by lethal jet-black coffee-mud.

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  Coffee, Black, Wikipedia

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• The good news (for writers) is that this means that ebooks on computers are more likely to be an enticement to buy the printed book (which is, after all, cheap, easily had, and easy to use) than a substitute for it. You can probably read just enough of the book off the screen to realize you want to be reading it on paper.

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  Reading, Book, Mean

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• He had them as spellbound as a room full of Ewoks listening to C-3PO.

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  Listening, Rooms

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• Each generation of rabbis is necessarily less perfect than the rabbis that came before, since each generation is more removed from the perfection of the Garden. Therefore, no rabbi is allowed to overturn any of his forebears' wisdom, since they are all, by definition, smarter than him.

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  Garden, Perfection, Generations

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

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• If you've never programmed a computer, you should. There's nothing like it in the whole world. When you program a computer, it does exactly what you tell it to do. It's like designing a machine — any machine, like a car, like a faucet, like a gas-hinge for a door — using math and instructions. It's awesome in the truest sense: it can fill you with awe.

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  Math, Doors, Car

  Cory Doctorow (2010). “Little Brother”, p.119, Macmillan

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• Freedom is something you have to take for yourself.

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  Cory Doctorow (2010). “Little Brother”, p.334, Macmillan

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• I just sit down and the page just comes out and I look at it and the elements that appear on that page have a lot to do with what's going on in my life.

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  Looks, Elements, Down And

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

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• I fireballed him as he was seeking out treasure after we wiped out a band of orcs, playing rock-paper-scissors with each orc to determine who would prevail in combat. This is a lot more exciting than it sounds. It's quite civilized, and a little weird. You go running after someone through the woods, catch up with him, bare your teeth, and sit down to play a little roshambo.

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  Running, Rocks, Play

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• There are people already sharing eBooks out there, .. and they do it simply because they love books. You don't buy a second copy of a book, cut the spine off, lay each page on a scanner, run that .tif through an OCR (Optical Character Reader), hand edit the resulting output for errors and then post it online if you don't love the book. it can up to 80 hours to turn a printed novel into an eBook. I figure if someone out there is willing to put in 80 hours of work promoting my book, then I'd prefer they do it in a way that gives a better return to me.

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  Running, Book, Character

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