Cory Doctorow Quotes - Page 2

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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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  Girl, Guy, Height

  Cory Doctorow (2010). “Little Brother”, p.188, Macmillan

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• It may be hard to monetize fame, but it is impossible to monetize obscurity.

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  Obscurity, May, Impossible

  Cory Doctorow (2011). “The Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow”, p.112, PM Press

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• The big problem isn’t piracy, it’s obscurity.

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  Obscurity, Problem, Bigs

  Cory Doctorow (2010). “Little Brother”, p.116, Macmillan

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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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  Laptops, Deep Relationship, Knows

  Cory Doctorow (2010). “Little Brother”, p.85, Macmillan

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• It is a mistake to let aesthetics drive your rational decision making.

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  Mistake, Decision, Rational

  YouTube Channel "UNC-Chapel Hill"/"Cory Doctorow: Pwned: How Copyright turns us all into IP ser", October 11, 2007.

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• Engineers are all basically high-functioning autistics who have no idea how normal people do stuff.

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  Ideas, People, Stuff

  Cory Doctorow (2015). “Eastern Standard Tribe”, p.137, Booklassic

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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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  Crooks, Calling, Want

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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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  Children, Naughty, Scare

  Cory Doctorow, Charles Stross (2012). “The Rapture of the Nerds: A tale of the singularity, posthumanity, and awkward social situations”, p.66, Macmillan

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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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  Country, Stupid, Winning

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• I fireballed him as he was seeking out treasure after we wiped out a band of orcs, playing rock-paper-scissors with each orc to determine who would prevail in combat. This is a lot more exciting than it sounds. It's quite civilized, and a little weird. You go running after someone through the woods, catch up with him, bare your teeth, and sit down to play a little roshambo.

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  Running, Rocks, Play

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• If you've never programmed a computer, you should. There's nothing like it in the whole world. When you program a computer, it does exactly what you tell it to do. It's like designing a machine — any machine, like a car, like a faucet, like a gas-hinge for a door — using math and instructions. It's awesome in the truest sense: it can fill you with awe.

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  Math, Doors, Car

  Cory Doctorow (2010). “Little Brother”, p.119, Macmillan

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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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  Book, Drm, Roaches

  Cory Doctorow (2011). “Context”, p.102, Tachyon Publications

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• Open platforms and experimental amateurs eventually beat out the spendy, slick pros. Relying on incumbents to produce your revolutions is not a good strategy. They're apt to take all the stuff that makes their products great and try to use technology to charge you extra for it, or prohibit it altogether.

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  Technology, Trying, Stuff

  "Why I Won't Buy an iPad (And Think You Shouldn't, Either)". boingboing.net. April 02, 2010.

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• I think that Utopia is a theory of human action.

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  Thinking, Action, Utopia

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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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  Writing, Fiction, Stories

  Interview with Richard Koman, archive.oreilly.com. March 4, 2005.

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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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  Block, Surgeons, Ifs

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• Like all security, privacy is hard.

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  Privacy, Hard, Security

  "We cannot afford to be indifferent to internet spying" by Cory Doctorow, www.theguardian.com. December 9, 2013.

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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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  Funny, Educational, School

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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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  Rooms, Return, Ethics

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• Skipping school isn't a crime. It's an infraction. They're totally different.

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  School, Different, Crime

  Cory Doctorow (2010). “Little Brother”, p.23, Macmillan

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• My feelings towards Scott Card are pretty mixed. Politically, he and I are pretty far apart.

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  Feelings, Cards

  Interview with Richard Koman, archive.oreilly.com. March 4, 2005.

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• The real damage from terrorist attacks doesn't come from the explosion. The real damage is done after the explosion, by the victims, who repeatedly and determinedly attack themselves, giving over reason in favor of terror... Terrorism is about magnifying one mediagenic act of violence into one hundred billion acts of terrorized authoritarian idiocy.

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  Real, Damage Is Done, Giving

  "BBC Photographer Prevented From Shooting St Paul's Because He Might Be 'Al Qaeda Operative'". boingboing.net. November 30, 2009.

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• It's hard not to like Asimov; he's a really likable guy.

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  Guy, Hard

  Interview with Richard Koman, archive.oreilly.com. March 4, 2005.

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• ... I think that I was too self-centered to ever develop good skills as a peacemaker. In my younger days, I assumed that it was because I was smarter than everyone else, with no patience for explaining things in short words for mouthbreathers who just didn't get it.

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  Thinking, Self, Skills

  Cory Doctorow (2015). “Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom”, p.75, Booklassic

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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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  Years, Drunk, Waiting

  Cory Doctorow (2015). “For The Win”, p.116, Booklassic

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