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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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City of Toronto
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Novels for me are how I find out what's going on in my own head. And so that's a really useful and indeed critical thing to do when you do as many of these other things as I do.
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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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For decades, computers have been helping us to remember, but now it's time for them to help us to ignore.
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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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It's hard not to like Asimov he's a really likable guy.
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Carlton Mellick III is one of bizarro fiction's most talented practitioners, a virtuoso of the surreal, science fictional tale.
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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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The other one I did was I, Robot. I take apart Isaac Asimov's Robots world.
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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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The companies are multinational--why should labor still stick to borders?
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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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I think that Utopia is a theory of human action.
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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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Universal access to human knowledge is in our grasp, for the first time in the history of the world. This is not a bad thing.
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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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Never underestimate the determination of a kid who is time-rich and cash-poor.
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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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Where there's life, there's hope. Living people can change things, dead people cannot.
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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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