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It's not necessarily about what career you pick. It's about how you do what you do.

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Cory Doctorow
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: July 17
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City of Toronto
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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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I think that Utopia is a theory of human action.
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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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This is why I loved technology: if you used it right, it could give you power and privacy.
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... the Kindle is a roach motel device: its license terms and DRM ensure that books can check in, but they can't check out.
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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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It may be hard to monetize fame, but it is impossible to monetize obscurity.
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Funny, for all surveillance, Osama bin Laden is still free—and we're not. Guess who's winning the war on terror?
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When you teach your students that it's economically rational to commit crimes where the fines for misconduct are lower than the expected return on the crime, you instill a professional ethic that has no room for morals.
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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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It's part of a cycle of stories I'm writing where I deconstruct classic science fiction.
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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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The other one I did was I, Robot. I take apart Isaac Asimov's Robots world.
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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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The companies are multinational--why should labor still stick to borders?
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Conversation is king. Content is just something to talk about.
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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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Stories are propaganda, virii that slide past your critical immune system and insert themselves directly into your emotions.
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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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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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