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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.

Cory Doctorow

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Cory Doctorow
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: July 17
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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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Once you get to naming your laptop, you know that you're really having a deep relationship with it.
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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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Freedom is something you have to take for yourself.
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Terrorism is about magnifying one mediagenic act of violence into one hundred billion acts of terrorized authoritarian idiocy.
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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 first casualty of any battle is the plan of attack.
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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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It's our goddamed city! It's our goddamed country. No terrorist can take it from us for so long as we're free. Once we're not free, the terrorists win! Take it back! You're young enough and stupid enough not to know that you can't possibly win, so you're the only ones who can lead us to victory! Take it back!
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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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Conversation is king. Content is just something to talk about.
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Where there's life, there's hope. Living people can change things, dead people cannot.
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