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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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City of Toronto
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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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The first casualty of any battle is the plan of attack.
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I choose YouTube over telly.
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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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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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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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Once you get to naming your laptop, you know that you're really having a deep relationship with it.
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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 other one I did was I, Robot. I take apart Isaac Asimov's Robots world.
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