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
He hated it when adults told him he only felt the way he did because he was young. As if being young… — Cory Doctorow Copy Share Image
If the best way to learn to succeed is to fail as fast as possible, then the second-best way is to watch… — Cory Doctorow Copy Share Image
Stop in the middle of a sentence, leaving a rough edge for you to start from the nest day - that way,… — Cory Doctorow Copy Share Image
I think that this misses out on some of the interesting narrative realities, which is that it actually doesn't work very well,… — Cory Doctorow Copy Share Image
There are people already sharing eBooks out there, .. and they do it simply because they love books. You don't buy a… — 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
