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It's hard not to like Asimov he's a really likable guy.

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Cory Doctorow
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: July 17
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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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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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This is why I loved technology: if you used it right, it could give you power and privacy.
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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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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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Abnormal is so common, it's practically normal.
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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 important thing about security systems isn’t how they work, it’s how they fail.
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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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No one should do a job he can do in his sleep.
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The companies are multinational--why should labor still stick to borders?
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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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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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It's part of a cycle of stories I'm writing where I deconstruct classic science fiction.
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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.
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Technology giveth and technology taketh away.
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Open platforms and experimental amateurs eventually beat out the spendy, slick pros. Relying on incumbents to produce your revolutions is not a good strategy. They're apt to take all the stuff that makes their products great and try to use technology to charge you extra for it, or prohibit it altogether.
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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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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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Stories are propaganda, virii that slide past your critical immune system and insert themselves directly into your emotions.
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