Quote

... the Kindle is a roach motel device: its license terms and DRM ensure that books can check in, but they can't check out.

Cory Doctorow

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Cory Doctorow
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: July 17
Author
Blogger
Editor
Journalist
Podcaster
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
City of Toronto
craphound
Cory Efram Doctorow
Checks
Roaches
Terms
Kindle
Books
Kindles
Term
Device
Book
Ensure
License
Roach
Devices
Motel
Check
Motels

More quotes by Cory Doctorow

Image
What if I got hit by lightning while walking with an umbrella? Ban umbrellas! Fight the menace of lightning!
Cory Doctorow
Image
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.
Cory Doctorow
Image
I'm not a lawyer I'm a kind of mouthpiece/activist type, though occasionally they shave me and stuff me into my Bar Mitzvah suit and send me to a standards body or the UN to stir up trouble. I spend about three weeks a month on the road doing completely weird stuff like going to Microsoft to talk about DRM.
Cory Doctorow
Image
Abnormal is so common, it's practically normal.
Cory Doctorow
Image
I think that Utopia is a theory of human action.
Cory Doctorow
Image
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.
Cory Doctorow
Image
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.
Cory Doctorow
Image
Any outfit that can't figure out clean toilets and decent theming on its own can't benefit from my advice.
Cory Doctorow
Image
It's hard not to like Asimov he's a really likable guy.
Cory Doctorow
Image
These days, tales of what Facebook did with its users during the singularity are commonly used to scare naughty children in Wales.
Cory Doctorow
Image
It may be hard to monetize fame, but it is impossible to monetize obscurity.
Cory Doctorow
Image
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.
Cory Doctorow
Image
Stories are propaganda, virii that slide past your critical immune system and insert themselves directly into your emotions.
Cory Doctorow
Image
Giant letters march across the dome of the sky: HOME NOT FOUND. Huw, who knows Comic Sans when she sees it, winces in mild disgust.
Cory Doctorow
Image
The companies are multinational--why should labor still stick to borders?
Cory Doctorow
Image
No one should do a job he can do in his sleep.
Cory Doctorow
Image
Put simply, I want to treat my readers as partners and not crooks. There is no future in calling your most active promoters crooks.
Cory Doctorow
Image
Technology giveth and technology taketh away.
Cory Doctorow
Image
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.
Cory Doctorow
Image
Engineers are all basically high-functioning autistics who have no idea how normal people do stuff.
Cory Doctorow