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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.

Cory Doctorow

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Cory Doctorow
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: July 17
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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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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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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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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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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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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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It's part of a cycle of stories I'm writing where I deconstruct classic science fiction.
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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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Never underestimate the determination of a kid who is time-rich and cash-poor.
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Engineers are all basically high-functioning autistics who have no idea how normal people do stuff.
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The other one I did was I, Robot. I take apart Isaac Asimov's Robots world.
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The idea that bigger haystacks have more needles in them is dumb on its face
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It's hard not to like Asimov he's a really likable guy.
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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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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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No one should do a job he can do in his sleep.
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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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It may be hard to monetize fame, but it is impossible to monetize obscurity.
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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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