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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.
Cory Doctorow
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Cory Doctorow
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: July 17
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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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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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... 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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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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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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Engineers are all basically high-functioning autistics who have no idea how normal people do stuff.
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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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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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If surgeons don't get surgeon's block, then why are you allowed to get writer's block?
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