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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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It's hard not to like Asimov he's a really likable guy.
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The important thing about security systems isn’t how they work, it’s how they fail.
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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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Technology giveth and technology taketh away.
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Engineers are all basically high-functioning autistics who have no idea how normal people do stuff.
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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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Never underestimate the determination of a kid who is time-rich and cash-poor.
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I can't go underground for a year, ten years, my whole life, waiting for freedom to be handed to me. Freedom is something you have to take for yourself.
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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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If surgeons don't get surgeon's block, then why are you allowed to get writer's block?
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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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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 free—and we're not. Guess who's winning the war on terror?
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Freedom is something you have to take for yourself.
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The other one I did was I, Robot. I take apart Isaac Asimov's Robots world.
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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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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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Where there's life, there's hope. Living people can change things, dead people cannot.
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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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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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