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 Copy Share Image
“If a paycheck could change your life, do you think they’d let you have one?” — Cory Doctorow Copy Share Image
I just sit down and the page just comes out and I look at it and the elements that appear on that… — Cory Doctorow Copy Share Image
Where there's life, there's hope. Living people can change things, dead people cannot. — Cory Doctorow Copy Share Image
“Look, there are as many walkaway philosophies as there are walkaways, but mine is, 'the stories you tell come true.' If you… — Cory Doctorow Copy Share Image
“You're awfully sure of yourself, aren't you? But ask yourself this: How can you know that you didn't spring up fully formed,… — Cory Doctorow Copy Share Image
“There's something really liberating about having some corner of your life that's yours, that no one gets to see except you. It's… — Cory Doctorow Copy Share Image
“For me the major turning point in my working life was when I figured out that the work I produced when I… — Cory Doctorow Copy Share Image
“For me -- for pretty much every writer -- the big problem isn't piracy, it's obscurity.” — Cory Doctorow Copy Share Image
“Kurt smiled a shy smile. "You're just trying to cheer me up," he said. "Course I am," Andy said. "You deserve to be full… — Cory Doctorow Copy Share Image
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… — Cory Doctorow Copy Share Image
The other one I did was 'I, Robot.' I take apart Isaac Asimov's Robots world. — Cory Doctorow Copy Share Image
“the problem with reading off a screen isn’t resolution, eyestrain, or compatibility with reading in the bathtub: it’s that computers are seductive, they tempt… — Cory Doctorow Copy Share Image
I'm 17 years old. I'm not a straight-A student or anything. Even so, I figured out how to make an Internet that they can't… — Cory Doctorow Copy Share Image
“Anything invented before you were eighteen was there all along. Anything invented before you’re thirty is exciting and will change the world forever. Anything… — Cory Doctorow Copy Share Image
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… — Cory Doctorow Copy Share Image
“It’s our version of Christian guilt—it’s impious to feel good about your piety. You have to want to be good, but not feel good… — Cory Doctorow Copy Share Image
The important thing about security systems isn’t how they work, it’s how they fail. — Cory Doctorow Copy Share Image
This is why I loved technology: if you used it right, it could give you power and privacy. — Cory Doctorow Copy Share Image
