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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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Cory Doctorow
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: July 17
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City of Toronto
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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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This is why I loved technology: if you used it right, it could give you power and privacy.
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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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It's part of a cycle of stories I'm writing where I deconstruct classic science fiction.
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Where there's life, there's hope. Living people can change things, dead people cannot.
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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 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 think that Utopia is a theory of human action.
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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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