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Cory Doctorow
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: July 17
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City of Toronto
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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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The other one I did was I, Robot. I take apart Isaac Asimov's Robots world.
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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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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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The idea that bigger haystacks have more needles in them is dumb on its face
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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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If surgeons don't get surgeon's block, then why are you allowed to get writer's block?
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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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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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The important thing about security systems isn’t how they work, it’s how they fail.
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Engineers are all basically high-functioning autistics who have no idea how normal people do stuff.
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Where there's life, there's hope. Living people can change things, dead people cannot.
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I'd never been a tall guy, and the girls I'd dated had all been my height--teenaged girls grow faster than guys, which is a cruel trick of nature.
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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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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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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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It may be hard to monetize fame, but it is impossible to monetize obscurity.
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Right, and you point out something important which is that people who don’t want to pay, people who are pirates, don’t get bothered by the DRM, they go out and buy the cracked books or download the cracked books for free. It’s only people who are foolish enough to pay for them that get locked into these platforms.
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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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