He had them as spellbound as a room full of Ewoks listening to C-3PO. — Cory Doctorow Copy Share Image
When you teach your students that it's "economically rational" to commit crimes where the fines for misconduct are lower than the expected return on the crime, you instill a professional ethic that has no room for morals. — 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
