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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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Cory Doctorow
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: July 17
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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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I think that Utopia is a theory of human action.
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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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We don’t care about what you did yesterday—we care about what you’re going to do tomorrow.
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It may be hard to monetize fame, but it is impossible to monetize obscurity.
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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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I'd never been a tall guy, and the girls I'd dated had all been my height--teenaged girls grow faster than guys, which is a cruel trick of nature.
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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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The first casualty of any battle is the plan of attack.
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It's hard not to like Asimov he's a really likable guy.
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I choose YouTube over telly.
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The important thing about security systems isn’t how they work, it’s how they fail.
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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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Open platforms and experimental amateurs eventually beat out the spendy, slick pros. Relying on incumbents to produce your revolutions is not a good strategy. They're apt to take all the stuff that makes their products great and try to use technology to charge you extra for it, or prohibit it altogether.
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