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Freedom is something you have to take for yourself.

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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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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The important thing about security systems isn’t how they work, it’s how they fail.
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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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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 other one I did was I, Robot. I take apart Isaac Asimov's Robots world.
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Abnormal is so common, it's practically normal.
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Where there's life, there's hope. Living people can change things, dead people cannot.
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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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Technology giveth and technology taketh away.
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Conversation is king. Content is just something to talk about.
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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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This is why I loved technology: if you used it right, it could give you power and privacy.
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Engineers are all basically high-functioning autistics who have no idea how normal people do stuff.
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... the Kindle is a roach motel device: its license terms and DRM ensure that books can check in, but they can't check out.
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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 idea that bigger haystacks have more needles in them is dumb on its face
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No one should do a job he can do in his sleep.
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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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