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… — Cory Doctorow Copy Share Image
The accolade of your peers is very exciting, always. There's lots of good stuff on the ballot. — Cory Doctorow Copy Share Image
Open platforms and experimental amateurs eventually beat out the spendy, slick pros. Relying on incumbents to produce your revolutions is not a… — Cory Doctorow Copy Share Image
I'm not a lawyer I'm a kind of mouthpiece/activist type, though occasionally they shave me and stuff me into my Bar Mitzvah… — Cory Doctorow Copy Share Image
Engineers are all basically high-functioning autistics who have no idea how normal people do stuff. — Cory Doctorow Copy Share Image
Everyone wants a definition of creativity that makes what they do into something special and what everyone else does into nothing special.… — 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
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
