Cory Doctorow Short Quotes

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

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If you stare at someone long enough, they'll eventually look back at you.

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

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

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Never underestimate the determination of a kid who is time rich and cash poor.

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All secrets are deep. All secrets become dark. That's in the nature of secrets.

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The future's a weirder place than we thought it would be when we were little kids.

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The important thing about security systems isn't how they work, it's how they fail.

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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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This is why I loved technology: if you used it right, it could give you power and privacy.

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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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Once you get to naming your laptop, you know that you're really having a deep relationship with it.

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

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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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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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The fact is, almost everything you do is collaborative. Somewhere out there, someone else had a hand it it.

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What if I got hit by lightning while walking with an umbrella? Ban umbrellas! Fight the menace of lightning!

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

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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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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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Any time someone puts a lock on something you own against your wishes, and doesn't give you the key, they're not doing it for your benefit.

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It's the stupid questions that have some of the most surprising and interesting answers. Most people never think to ask the stupid questions.

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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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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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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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First-time novelists have a tough row to hoe. Our publishers don't have a lot of promotional budget to throw at unknown factors like us. Mostly, we rise and fall based on word-of-mouth.

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I'm of the opinion that science fiction writers suck at predicting the future. We mostly go around describing the present in futuristic clothes - (such as) Mary Shelley, Bill Gibson, and many others.

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