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Conversation is king. Content is just something to talk about.

Cory Doctorow

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Cory Doctorow
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: July 17
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City of Toronto
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Cory Efram Doctorow
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I choose YouTube over telly.
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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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Engineers are all basically high-functioning autistics who have no idea how normal people do stuff.
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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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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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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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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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Freedom is something you have to take for yourself.
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The companies are multinational--why should labor still stick to borders?
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No one should do a job he can do in his sleep.
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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 first casualty of any battle is the plan of attack.
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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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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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What if I got hit by lightning while walking with an umbrella? Ban umbrellas! Fight the menace of lightning!
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It's hard not to like Asimov he's a really likable guy.
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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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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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Abnormal is so common, it's practically normal.
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