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Cory Doctorow
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: July 17
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City of Toronto
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This is why I loved technology: if you used it right, it could give you power and privacy.
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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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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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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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It's hard not to like Asimov he's a really likable guy.
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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.
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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 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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The first casualty of any battle is the plan of attack.
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Abnormal is so common, it's practically normal.
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Never underestimate the determination of a kid who is time-rich and cash-poor.
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Technology giveth and technology taketh away.
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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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Engineers are all basically high-functioning autistics who have no idea how normal people do stuff.
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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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If surgeons don't get surgeon's block, then why are you allowed to get writer's block?
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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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Terrorism is about magnifying one mediagenic act of violence into one hundred billion acts of terrorized authoritarian idiocy.
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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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... 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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