Quote

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

Cory Doctorow

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Cory Doctorow
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: July 17
Author
Blogger
Editor
Journalist
Podcaster
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
City of Toronto
craphound
Cory Efram Doctorow
Free
Funny
War
Surveillance
Stills
Laden
Still
Terrorism
Terror
Guess
Winning

More quotes by Cory Doctorow

Image
Put simply, I want to treat my readers as partners and not crooks. There is no future in calling your most active promoters crooks.
Cory Doctorow
Image
It may be hard to monetize fame, but it is impossible to monetize obscurity.
Cory Doctorow
Image
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.
Cory Doctorow
Image
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
Image
... the Kindle is a roach motel device: its license terms and DRM ensure that books can check in, but they can't check out.
Cory Doctorow
Image
Any outfit that can't figure out clean toilets and decent theming on its own can't benefit from my advice.
Cory Doctorow
Image
The idea that bigger haystacks have more needles in them is dumb on its face
Cory Doctorow
Image
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.
Cory Doctorow
Image
It's hard not to like Asimov he's a really likable guy.
Cory Doctorow
Image
The companies are multinational--why should labor still stick to borders?
Cory Doctorow
Image
Abnormal is so common, it's practically normal.
Cory Doctorow
Image
Terrorism is about magnifying one mediagenic act of violence into one hundred billion acts of terrorized authoritarian idiocy.
Cory Doctorow
Image
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.
Cory Doctorow
Image
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.
Cory Doctorow
Image
The other one I did was I, Robot. I take apart Isaac Asimov's Robots world.
Cory Doctorow
Image
Engineers are all basically high-functioning autistics who have no idea how normal people do stuff.
Cory Doctorow
Image
It's not necessarily about what career you pick. It's about how you do what you do.
Cory Doctorow
Image
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?
Cory Doctorow
Image
These days, tales of what Facebook did with its users during the singularity are commonly used to scare naughty children in Wales.
Cory Doctorow
Image
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.
Cory Doctorow