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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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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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It's hard not to like Asimov he's a really likable guy.
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It may be hard to monetize fame, but it is impossible to monetize obscurity.
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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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Engineers are all basically high-functioning autistics who have no idea how normal people do stuff.
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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.
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I think that Utopia is a theory of human action.
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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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If surgeons don't get surgeon's block, then why are you allowed to get writer's block?
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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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We don’t care about what you did yesterday—we care about what you’re going to do tomorrow.
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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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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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I choose YouTube over telly.
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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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Never underestimate the determination of a kid who is time-rich and cash-poor.
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Abnormal is so common, it's practically normal.
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The first casualty of any battle is the plan of attack.
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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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It's part of a cycle of stories I'm writing where I deconstruct classic science fiction.
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