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I choose YouTube over telly.

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Cory Doctorow
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: July 17
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City of Toronto
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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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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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I think that Utopia is a theory of human action.
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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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Conversation is king. Content is just something to talk about.
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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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The important thing about security systems isn’t how they work, it’s how they fail.
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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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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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This is why I loved technology: if you used it right, it could give you power and privacy.
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The other one I did was I, Robot. I take apart Isaac Asimov's Robots world.
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Once you get to naming your laptop, you know that you're really having a deep relationship with it.
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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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The companies are multinational--why should labor still stick to borders?
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We don’t care about what you did yesterday—we care about what you’re going to do tomorrow.
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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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It's part of a cycle of stories I'm writing where I deconstruct classic science fiction.
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Freedom is something you have to take for yourself.
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It may be hard to monetize fame, but it is impossible to monetize obscurity.
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No one should do a job he can do in his sleep.
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