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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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What if I got hit by lightning while walking with an umbrella? Ban umbrellas! Fight the menace of lightning!
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Abnormal is so common, it's practically normal.
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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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It may be hard to monetize fame, but it is impossible to monetize obscurity.
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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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Once you get to naming your laptop, you know that you're really having a deep relationship with it.
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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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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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Right, and you point out something important which is that people who don’t want to pay, people who are pirates, don’t get bothered by the DRM, they go out and buy the cracked books or download the cracked books for free. It’s only people who are foolish enough to pay for them that get locked into these platforms.
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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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The important thing about security systems isn’t how they work, it’s how they fail.
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