Cory Doctorow

“Content," huh? Ha! Where's the container?”

— Cory Doctorow

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

— Cory Doctorow

Like all security, privacy is hard.

— Cory Doctorow

Freedom is something you have to take for yourself.

— Cory Doctorow

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

— Cory Doctorow

I choose YouTube over telly.

— Cory Doctorow

Write even when the world is chaotic.

— Cory Doctorow

Technology giveth and technology taketh away.

— Cory Doctorow

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

— Cory Doctorow

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

— Cory Doctorow

“after Anonymous brought in its Real Name Policy. They”

— Cory Doctorow

“It’s the nature of the beast to believe in bubbles and think you can just entrepreneur your way out.” She”

— Cory Doctorow

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

— Cory Doctorow

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

— Cory Doctorow

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

— Cory Doctorow

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

— Cory Doctorow

“The important thing is to convince people to make and share useful things. Fighting with greedy douches who don't share doesn't do…

— Cory Doctorow

“The difference between reading a story and studying a story is the difference between living the story and killing the story and…

— Cory Doctorow

“A ‘job creator’ is someone who figures out how to threaten you with starvation unless you do something you don’t want to…

— Cory Doctorow

“You’re taking the bus around Burbank?” Lester said. “Christ, Perry, this is Los Angeles. Even homeless people drive cars.”

— Cory Doctorow

“Kurt smiled a shy smile. "You're just trying to cheer me up," he said. "Course I am," Andy said. "You deserve to…

— Cory Doctorow

“Start at the beginning,” he said. “Move one step in the direction of your goal. Remember that you can change direction to…

— Cory Doctorow

Giant letters march across the dome of the sky: HOME NOT FOUND. Huw, who knows Comic Sans when she sees it, winces…

— Cory Doctorow

Terrorism is about magnifying one mediagenic act of violence into one hundred billion acts of terrorized authoritarian idiocy.

— Cory Doctorow

“You know, there comes a point where you're not giving advice anymore. There comes a point where you're just moralizing, demonstrating your…

— Cory Doctorow

“The best way to be superhuman is to do things that you love with other people who love them, too. The only…

— Cory Doctorow

“It was like finding Attila the Hun at a yoga class. Like finding Darth Vader playing ultimate Frisbee in the park. Like…

— Cory Doctorow

“the problem with reading off a screen isn’t resolution, eyestrain, or compatibility with reading in the bathtub: it’s that computers are seductive,…

— Cory Doctorow

The opposite of esprit d'escalier is the way that life's embarrassments come back to haunt us even after they're long past. I…

— Cory Doctorow

I fireballed him as he was seeking out treasure after we wiped out a band of orcs, playing rock-paper-scissors with each orc…

— Cory Doctorow

Each generation of rabbis is necessarily less perfect than the rabbis that came before, since each generation is more removed from the…

— Cory Doctorow

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…

— Cory Doctorow

“The fact was, there wasn't room on earth for a couple million gold-farmers to turn into high-paid video-game executives. The fact was,…

— Cory Doctorow

“[T]hat little voice shut up the instant I did something. And not just something: the exact thing I knew to be right.…

— Cory Doctorow

“The worst part was that the Brit’s reportage was just spleen-filled editorializing on the lack of ethics in the valley’s board-rooms (a…

— Cory Doctorow

“If you want, you can make him seem erratic and unreliable so they get rid of him. You can manufacture crises that…

— Cory Doctorow

“I read my copy of On the Road and dug the scenery whizzing past. On the Road is a semi-autobiographical novel about…

— Cory Doctorow

“If there’s a disaster, do you go over to your neighbor’s house with: a) a covered dish or b) a shotgun? It’s…

— Cory Doctorow

“For me the major turning point in my working life was when I figured out that the work I produced when I…

— Cory Doctorow

“Haven’t you figured it out? Giving money away doesn’t solve anything. Asking the zottarich to redeem themselves by giving money away acknowledges…

— Cory Doctorow