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No one should do a job he can do in his sleep.

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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The important thing about security systems isn’t how they work, it’s how they fail.
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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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The other one I did was I, Robot. I take apart Isaac Asimov's Robots world.
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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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For decades, computers have been helping us to remember, but now it's time for them to help us to ignore.
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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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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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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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Where there's life, there's hope. Living people can change things, dead people cannot.
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I think that Utopia is a theory of human action.
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The companies are multinational--why should labor still stick to borders?
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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.
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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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Giant letters march across the dome of the sky: HOME NOT FOUND. Huw, who knows Comic Sans when she sees it, winces in mild disgust.
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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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The idea that bigger haystacks have more needles in them is dumb on its face
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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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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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It's part of a cycle of stories I'm writing where I deconstruct classic science fiction.
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