Cory Doctorow Quotes - Page 4

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• We roared. We were one big animal throat, roaring.

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  Animal, Roaring, Bigs

  Cory Doctorow (2010). “Little Brother”, p.191, Macmillan

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• The other one I did was "I, Robot." I take apart Isaac Asimov's Robots world.

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  Robots, World, Isaac

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

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• It's a story of little girls who are pressed into working in sweat shops in games, who spend all day doing repetitive grinding tasks like making shirts, which are then converted into gold and sold on eBay.

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  Girl, Ebay, Games

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

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• The accolade of your peers is very exciting, always. There's lots of good stuff on the ballot.

  Cory Doctorow

  Peers, Stuff, Exciting

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

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• There is no future in which bits will be harder to copy than they are today ... Any business model that based on the idea that bits will be harder to copy is doomed.

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  Ideas, Today, Harder

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• Digital Distribution and the Whip Hand: Don't Get iTunesed with your eBooks

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  Hands, Digital, Distribution

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• Content isn't king. If I sent you to a desert island and gave you the choice of taking your friends or your movies, you'd choose your friends -- if you chose the movies, we'd call you a sociopath. Conversation is king. Content is just something to talk about.

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  Kings, Islands, Choices

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• Right, and you point out something important which is that people who don’t want to pay, people who are pirates, don’t get bothered by the DRM, they go out and buy the cracked books or download the cracked books for free. It’s only people who are foolish enough to pay for them that get locked into these platforms.

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  Book, People, Pirate

  "Interview with Cory Doctorow, Part 2: Ebooks, DRM and Universal Formats". Interview with Sara Rosso, whenihavetime.com. April 7, 2009.

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• Stories are propaganda, virii that slide past your critical immune system and insert themselves directly into your emotions.

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  Past, Slides, Stories

  Cory Doctorow (2015). “Eastern Standard Tribe”, p.12, Booklassic

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• Terrorism is about magnifying one mediagenic act of violence into one hundred billion acts of terrorized authoritarian idiocy.

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  Violence, Terrorism, Hundred

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

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• if it's not in my email archive, I don't know it

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  Email, Archives, Knows

  Cory Doctorow (2011). “Context”, p.50, Tachyon Publications

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• The United States of America was a pirate nation for the first one hundred years of its existence, ripping off the patents and trademarks of the imperial European powers it had liberated itself from by blood. By keeping their GDP at home, the U.S. revolutionaries were able to bootstrap their nation into an industrial powerhouse. Now, it seems, their descendants are bent on ensuring that no other country can pull the same trick off.

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  Country, Home, America

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• These days, tales of what Facebook did with its users during the singularity are commonly used to scare naughty children in Wales.

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  Children, Naughty, Scare

  Cory Doctorow, Charles Stross (2012). “The Rapture of the Nerds: A tale of the singularity, posthumanity, and awkward social situations”, p.66, Macmillan

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• Any outfit that can't figure out clean toilets and decent theming on its own can't benefit from my advice.

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  Advice, Benefits, Toilets

  Cory Doctorow (2015). “Makers”, p.345, Booklassic

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• Giant letters march across the dome of the sky: HOME NOT FOUND. Huw, who knows Comic Sans when she sees it, winces in mild disgust.

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  Home, Sky, Giants

  Cory Doctorow, Charles Stross (2012). “The Rapture of the Nerds: A tale of the singularity, posthumanity, and awkward social situations”, p.124, Macmillan

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