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Abnormal is so common, it's practically normal.

Cory Doctorow

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Cory Doctorow
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: July 17
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City of Toronto
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Cory Efram Doctorow
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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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It's not necessarily about what career you pick. It's about how you do what you do.
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The important thing about security systems isn’t how they work, it’s how they fail.
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Where there's life, there's hope. Living people can change things, dead people cannot.
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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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The right to freedom of association is fine, but why shouldn't the cops be allowed to mine your social network to figure out if you're hanging out with gangbangers and terrorists?
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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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Engineers are all basically high-functioning autistics who have no idea how normal people do stuff.
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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.
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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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Never underestimate the determination of a kid who is time-rich and cash-poor.
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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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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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I choose YouTube over telly.
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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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Stories are propaganda, virii that slide past your critical immune system and insert themselves directly into your emotions.
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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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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.
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No one should do a job he can do in his sleep.
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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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