Quote

It's part of a cycle of stories I'm writing where I deconstruct classic science fiction.

Cory Doctorow

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Cory Doctorow
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: July 17
Author
Blogger
Editor
Journalist
Podcaster
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
City of Toronto
craphound
Cory Efram Doctorow
Cycle
Cycles
Classic
Fiction
Science
Stories
Part
Writing
Deconstruct

More quotes by Cory Doctorow

Image
Conversation is king. Content is just something to talk about.
Cory Doctorow
Image
The important thing about security systems isn’t how they work, it’s how they fail.
Cory Doctorow
Image
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.
Cory Doctorow
Image
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
Image
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.
Cory Doctorow
Image
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.
Cory Doctorow
Image
It's not necessarily about what career you pick. It's about how you do what you do.
Cory Doctorow
Image
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.
Cory Doctorow
Image
Put simply, I want to treat my readers as partners and not crooks. There is no future in calling your most active promoters crooks.
Cory Doctorow
Image
We don’t care about what you did yesterday—we care about what you’re going to do tomorrow.
Cory Doctorow
Image
Where there's life, there's hope. Living people can change things, dead people cannot.
Cory Doctorow
Image
The idea that bigger haystacks have more needles in them is dumb on its face
Cory Doctorow
Image
No one should do a job he can do in his sleep.
Cory Doctorow
Image
If surgeons don't get surgeon's block, then why are you allowed to get writer's block?
Cory Doctorow
Image
It's hard not to like Asimov he's a really likable guy.
Cory Doctorow
Image
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.
Cory Doctorow
Image
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.
Cory Doctorow
Image
... the Kindle is a roach motel device: its license terms and DRM ensure that books can check in, but they can't check out.
Cory Doctorow
Image
I think that Utopia is a theory of human action.
Cory Doctorow
Image
The companies are multinational--why should labor still stick to borders?
Cory Doctorow