“If you love freedom, if you think the human condition is dignified by privacy, by the right to be left alone, by the right to explore your weird ideas provided you don’t hurt others, then you have common cause with… — 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
“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
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
The other one I did was 'I, Robot.' I take apart Isaac Asimov's Robots world. — Cory Doctorow Copy Share
“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
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
“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
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
“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
The important thing about security systems isn’t how they work, it’s how they fail. — Cory Doctorow Copy Share
This is why I loved technology: if you used it right, it could give you power and privacy. — Cory Doctorow Copy Share
Funny, for all surveillance, Osama bin Laden is still free—and we're not. Guess who's winning the "war on terror? — Cory Doctorow Copy Share
I had this really great amazing thing happen where I almost finished the book and I really needed to come up with an ending… — Cory Doctorow Copy Share
It's the stupid questions that have some of the most surprising and interesting answers. Most people never think to ask the stupid questions. — Cory Doctorow Copy Share
