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Cory Doctorow
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Cory Doctorow
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: July 17
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I choose YouTube over telly.
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He hated it when adults told him he only felt the way he did because he was young. As if being young was like being insane or drunk, like the convictions he held were hallucinations caused by a mental illness that could only be cured by waiting five years.
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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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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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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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Abnormal is so common, it's practically normal.
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The companies are multinational--why should labor still stick to borders?
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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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No one should do a job he can do in his sleep.
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Never underestimate the determination of a kid who is time-rich and cash-poor.
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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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It's our goddamed city! It's our goddamed country. No terrorist can take it from us for so long as we're free. Once we're not free, the terrorists win! Take it back! You're young enough and stupid enough not to know that you can't possibly win, so you're the only ones who can lead us to victory! Take it back!
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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.
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It's hard not to like Asimov he's a really likable guy.
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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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Terrorism is about magnifying one mediagenic act of violence into one hundred billion acts of terrorized authoritarian idiocy.
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