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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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Blogger
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Science Fiction Writer
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City of Toronto
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Cory Efram Doctorow
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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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Freedom is something you have to take for yourself.
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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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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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It's part of a cycle of stories I'm writing where I deconstruct classic science fiction.
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Conversation is king. Content is just something to talk about.
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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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Where there's life, there's hope. Living people can change things, dead people cannot.
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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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I think that Utopia is a theory of human action.
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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 idea that bigger haystacks have more needles in them is dumb on its face
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The companies are multinational--why should labor still stick to borders?
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The important thing about security systems isn’t how they work, it’s how they fail.
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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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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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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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