Cory Doctorow Quotes

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• This is why I loved technology: if you used it right, it could give you power and privacy.
• Each generation of rabbis is necessarily less perfect than the rabbis that came before, since each generation is more removed from the perfection of the…
• Abnormal is so common, it's practically normal.
• What if I got hit by lightning while walking with an umbrella? Ban umbrellas! Fight the menace of lightning!
• If you've never programmed a computer, you should. There's nothing like it in the whole world. When you program a computer, it does exactly what…
• The big problem isn’t piracy, it’s obscurity.
• Run in circles, scream and shout,
• My feelings towards Scott Card are pretty mixed. Politically, he and I are pretty far apart.
• The right to freedom of association is fine, but why shouldn't the cops be allowed to mine your social network to figure out if you're…
• Freedom is something you have to take for yourself.
• Write even when the world is chaotic. You don’t need a cigarette, silence, music, a comfortable chair, or inner peace to write. You just need…
• I just sit down and the page just comes out and I look at it and the elements that appear on that page have a…
• It's a story of little girls who are pressed into working in sweat shops in games, who spend all day doing repetitive grinding tasks like…
• Content isn't king. If I sent you to a desert island and gave you the choice of taking your friends or your movies, you'd choose…
• Like all security, privacy is hard.
• If surgeons don't get surgeon's block, then why are you allowed to get writer's block?
• Digital Distribution and the Whip Hand: Don't Get iTunesed with your eBooks
• Where there's life, there's hope. Living people can change things, dead people cannot.
• If this prinicpal thinks blogging isn't educational, he needs his head examined: he should be seeking out every student blogger in the school and giving…
• There is no future in which bits will be harder to copy than they are today ... Any business model that based on the idea…

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