Cory Doctorow Quotes - Page 3

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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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  Association, Social Network, Cop

  Cory Doctorow (2010). “Little Brother”, p.138, Macmillan

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• Every time I go past a cinema and see a queue out the door, I think, look at those fools, every penny they spend is turned into profits that are used to pass laws imprisoning their own children. Can't they see?

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  Children, Past, Thinking

  Cory Doctorow (2012). “Pirate Cinema”, p.154, Macmillan

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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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  War, Winning, Surveillance

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• I choose YouTube over telly.

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  Youtube

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• I'm not a lawyer I'm a kind of mouthpiece/activist type, though occasionally they shave me and stuff me into my Bar Mitzvah suit and send me to a standards body or the UN to stir up trouble. I spend about three weeks a month on the road doing completely weird stuff like going to Microsoft to talk about DRM.

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  Microsoft, Body, Stuff

  Cory Doctorow (2008). “Content: Selected Essays on Technology, Creativity, Copyright, and the Future of the Future”

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• Disney is a delight, someone who ... sweeps those around him along on his dream.

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  Dream, Delight

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• No one should do a job he can do in his sleep.

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  Jobs, Sleep, Should

  Cory Doctorow (2006). “Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town”, p.247, Macmillan

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• The companies are multinational--why should labor still stick to borders?

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  Borders, Sticks, Should

  Cory Doctorow (2015). “For The Win”, p.187, Booklassic

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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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  Careers, Picks

  Cory Doctorow (2006). “Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town”, p.147, Macmillan

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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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  Helping, Remember, Computer

  Cory Doctorow (2008). “Content: Selected Essays on Technology, Creativity, Copyright, and the Future of the Future”

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• The United States of America was a pirate nation for the first one hundred years of its existence, ripping off the patents and trademarks of the imperial European powers it had liberated itself from by blood. By keeping their GDP at home, the U.S. revolutionaries were able to bootstrap their nation into an industrial powerhouse. Now, it seems, their descendants are bent on ensuring that no other country can pull the same trick off.

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  Country, Home, America

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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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  Garden, Perfection, Generations

  Cory Doctorow (2008). “Content: Selected Essays on Technology, Creativity, Copyright, and the Future of the Future”

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• He had them as spellbound as a room full of Ewoks listening to C-3PO.

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  Listening, Rooms

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• It is not gender, nor age, nor race, but your ability to work hard at what you love.

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  Hard Work, Race, Age

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• Freedom is something you have to take for yourself.

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  Cory Doctorow (2010). “Little Brother”, p.334, Macmillan

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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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  Home, Sky, Giants

  Cory Doctorow, Charles Stross (2012). “The Rapture of the Nerds: A tale of the singularity, posthumanity, and awkward social situations”, p.124, Macmillan

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• Everyone wants a definition of creativity that makes what they do into something special and what everyone else does into nothing special. But the fact is, we're all creative. We come up with weird and interesting ideas all the time. The biggest difference between 'creators' isn't their imagination - it's how hard they work. Ideas are easy. Doing stuff is hard.

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  Creativity, Ideas, Differences

  Cory Doctorow (2012). “Pirate Cinema”, p.208, Macmillan

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• It's a story of little girls who are pressed into working in sweat shops in games, who spend all day doing repetitive grinding tasks like making shirts, which are then converted into gold and sold on eBay.

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  Girl, Ebay, Games

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

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• The idea that bigger haystacks have more needles in them is dumb on its face

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  Ideas, Dumb, Faces

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• If the best way to learn to succeed is to fail as fast as possible, then the second-best way is to watch someone else fail as fast as possible. Watching someone else screw up is a kind of rehearsal for your own eventual downfall. A close observation of someone else's attempt to resolve a difficulty is a great way to acquire real-world insight into whether and when to deploy their method in your own times of trouble.

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  Real, Screw Ups, Watches

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• We roared. We were one big animal throat, roaring.

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  Animal, Roaring, Bigs

  Cory Doctorow (2010). “Little Brother”, p.191, Macmillan

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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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  Violence, Terrorism, Hundred

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

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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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  Book, People, Pirate

  "Interview with Cory Doctorow, Part 2: Ebooks, DRM and Universal Formats". Interview with Sara Rosso, whenihavetime.com. April 7, 2009.

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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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  Advice, Benefits, Toilets

  Cory Doctorow (2015). “Makers”, p.345, Booklassic

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• Stories are propaganda, virii that slide past your critical immune system and insert themselves directly into your emotions.

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  Past, Slides, Stories

  Cory Doctorow (2015). “Eastern Standard Tribe”, p.12, Booklassic

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