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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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Content isn't king. If I sent you to a desert island and gave you the choice of taking your friends or your movies, you'd choose your friends -- if you chose the movies, we'd call you a sociopath. Conversation is king. Content is just something to talk about.
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When you teach your students that it's economically rational to commit crimes where the fines for misconduct are lower than the expected return on the crime, you instill a professional ethic that has no room for morals.
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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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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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It's not necessarily about what career you pick. It's about how you do what you do.
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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 first casualty of any battle is the plan of attack.
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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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Funny, for all surveillance, Osama bin Laden is still freeand we're not. Guess who's winning the war on terror?
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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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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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It's part of a cycle of stories I'm writing where I deconstruct classic science fiction.
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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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Engineers are all basically high-functioning autistics who have no idea how normal people do stuff.
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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 important thing about security systems isn’t how they work, it’s how they fail.
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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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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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