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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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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.
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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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The other one I did was I, Robot. I take apart Isaac Asimov's Robots world.
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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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Universal access to human knowledge is in our grasp, for the first time in the history of the world. This is not a bad thing.
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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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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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For decades, computers have been helping us to remember, but now it's time for them to help us to ignore.
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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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If surgeons don't get surgeon's block, then why are you allowed to get writer's block?
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It's hard not to like Asimov he's a really likable guy.
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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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I choose YouTube over telly.
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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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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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Technology giveth and technology taketh away.
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Abnormal is so common, it's practically normal.
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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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The idea that bigger haystacks have more needles in them is dumb on its face
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