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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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Cory Efram Doctorow
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It may be hard to monetize fame, but it is impossible to monetize obscurity.
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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 right to freedom of association is fine, but why shouldn't the cops be allowed to mine your social network to figure out if you're hanging out with gangbangers and terrorists?
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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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No one should do a job he can do in his sleep.
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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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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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Write even when the world is chaotic. You don’t need a cigarette, silence, music, a comfortable chair, or inner peace to write. You just need ten minutes and a writing implement.
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I choose YouTube over telly.
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It's hard not to like Asimov he's a really likable guy.
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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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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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Terrorism is about magnifying one mediagenic act of violence into one hundred billion acts of terrorized authoritarian idiocy.
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Funny, for all surveillance, Osama bin Laden is still freeand we're not. Guess who's winning the war on terror?
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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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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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Abnormal is so common, it's practically normal.
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I think that Utopia is a theory of human action.
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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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What if I got hit by lightning while walking with an umbrella? Ban umbrellas! Fight the menace of lightning!
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