Cory Doctorow Quotes - Page 4

Quotes about:

• The other one I did was "I, Robot." I take apart Isaac Asimov's Robots world.

  Cory Doctorow

  Robots, World, Isaac

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

  7 Copy quote

• 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.

  Cory Doctorow

  Book, People, Pirate

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

  6 Copy quote

• The accolade of your peers is very exciting, always. There's lots of good stuff on the ballot.

  Cory Doctorow

  Peers, Stuff, Exciting

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

  8 Copy quote

• Content isn't king. If I sent you to a desert island and gave you the choice of taking your friends or your movies, you'd choose your friends -- if you chose the movies, we'd call you a sociopath. Conversation is king. Content is just something to talk about.

  Cory Doctorow

  Kings, Islands, Choices

  5 Copy quote

• 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.

  Cory Doctorow

  Real, Screw Ups, Watches

  4 Copy quote

• There are people already sharing eBooks out there, .. and they do it simply because they love books. You don't buy a second copy of a book, cut the spine off, lay each page on a scanner, run that .tif through an OCR (Optical Character Reader), hand edit the resulting output for errors and then post it online if you don't love the book. it can up to 80 hours to turn a printed novel into an eBook. I figure if someone out there is willing to put in 80 hours of work promoting my book, then I'd prefer they do it in a way that gives a better return to me.

  Cory Doctorow

  Running, Book, Character

  4 Copy quote

• Novels for me are how I find out what's going on in my own head. And so that's a really useful and indeed critical thing to do when you do as many of these other things as I do.

  Cory Doctorow

  Novel, Things To Do, Critical

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

  4 Copy quote

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

  Cory Doctorow

  Past, Slides, Stories

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

  4 Copy quote

• 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.

  Cory Doctorow

  Creativity, Ideas, Differences

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

  4 Copy quote

• if it's not in my email archive, I don't know it

  Cory Doctorow

  Email, Archives, Knows

  Cory Doctorow (2011). “Context”, p.50, Tachyon Publications

  4 Copy quote

• Most of the books, music and movies ever released are not available for sale, anywhere in the world. In the brief time that P2P nets have flourished, the ad-hoc masses of the Internet have managed to put just about *everything* online. What's more, they've done it far cheaper than any other archiving/revival effort ever.

  Cory Doctorow

  Book, Effort, World

  Creative Commons Interview, creativecommons.org. August 1, 2005.

  4 Copy quote

• I don't know anything about press conferences." "Oh, just Google it. I'm sure someone's written an article on holding a successful one. I mean, if the President can manage it, I'm sure you can. He looks like he can barely tie his shoes without help.

  Cory Doctorow

  Mean, Successful, Shoes

  Cory Doctorow (2010). “Little Brother”, p.230, Macmillan

  4 Copy quote

• Carlton Mellick III is one of bizarro fiction's most talented practitioners, a virtuoso of the surreal, science fictional tale.

  Cory Doctorow

  Fiction, Tales, Surreal

  4 Copy quote

• Stop in the middle of a sentence, leaving a rough edge for you to start from the nest day - that way, you can write three or five words without being “creative” and before you know it, you're writing.

  Cory Doctorow

  Writing, Rough Edges, Creative

  5 Copy quote

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

  Cory Doctorow

  Ideas, Dumb, Faces

  4 Copy quote

Page 4 of 4

First

← Prev

1

2

3

4

Next →

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin