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Cory Doctorow
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: July 17
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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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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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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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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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It's not necessarily about what career you pick. It's about how you do what you do.
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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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Where there's life, there's hope. Living people can change things, dead people cannot.
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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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Never underestimate the determination of a kid who is time-rich and cash-poor.
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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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Freedom is something you have to take for yourself.
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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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No one should do a job he can do in his sleep.
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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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It's hard not to like Asimov he's a really likable guy.
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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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Engineers are all basically high-functioning autistics who have no idea how normal people do stuff.
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