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Cory Doctorow Inspirational Quotes (51)

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This is why I loved technology: if you used it right, it could give you power and privacy.
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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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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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Write even when the world is chaotic. You don’t need a cigarette, silence, music, a comfortable chair, or inner peace to write. You just need ten minutes and a writing implement.
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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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... 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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Where there's life, there's hope. Living people can change things, dead people cannot.
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The companies are multinational--why should labor still stick to borders?
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Engineers are all basically high-functioning autistics who have no idea how normal people do stuff.
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I can't go underground for a year, ten years, my whole life, waiting for freedom to be handed to me. Freedom is something you have to take for yourself.
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The idea that bigger haystacks have more needles in them is dumb on its face
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We don’t care about what you did yesterday—we care about what you’re going to do tomorrow.
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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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Once you get to naming your laptop, you know that you're really having a deep relationship with it.
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Conversation is king. Content is just something to talk about.
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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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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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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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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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It's hard not to like Asimov he's a really likable guy.
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I think that Utopia is a theory of human action.
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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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Stories are propaganda, virii that slide past your critical immune system and insert themselves directly into your emotions.
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Freedom is something you have to take for yourself.
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