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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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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 think that Utopia is a theory of human action.
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Where there's life, there's hope. Living people can change things, dead people cannot.
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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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The important thing about security systems isn’t how they work, it’s how they fail.
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Funny, for all surveillance, Osama bin Laden is still free—and we're not. Guess who's winning the war on terror?
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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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The other one I did was I, Robot. I take apart Isaac Asimov's Robots world.
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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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... 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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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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Technology giveth and technology taketh away.
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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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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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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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Giant letters march across the dome of the sky: HOME NOT FOUND. Huw, who knows Comic Sans when she sees it, winces in mild disgust.
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It may be hard to monetize fame, but it is impossible to monetize obscurity.
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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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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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