All Cory Doctorow Quotes
- There are people already sharing eBooks out there, .. and they do it simply because they love books. You don't buy a second copy of… Better
- The important thing about security systems isn’t how they work, it’s how they fail. Fail
- It is not gender, nor age, nor race, but your ability to work hard at what you love. Ability
- 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 thing… Critical
- Funny, for all surveillance, Osama bin Laden is still free—and we're not. Guess who's winning the "war on terror? All
- All secrets become deep. All secrets become dark. That's in the nature of secrets. All
- It's our goddamed city! It's our goddamed country. No terrorist can take it from us for so long as we're free. Once we're not free,… Cities
- We roared. We were one big animal throat, roaring. Animal
- Conversation is king. Content is just something to talk about. Content
- 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 wiretap.… Airplane
- Skipping school isn't a crime. It's an infraction. They're totally different. Crime
- 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 the… Book
- I'd never been a tall guy, and the girls I'd dated had all been my height--teenaged girls grow faster than guys, which is a cruel… All
- 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 could remember every… Any
- I fireballed him as he was seeking out treasure after we wiped out a band of orcs, playing rock-paper-scissors with each orc to determine who… Band
- I can't go underground for a year, ten years, my whole life, waiting for freedom to be handed to me. Freedom is something you have… Freedom
- Stories are propaganda, virii that slide past your critical immune system and insert themselves directly into your emotions. Critical
- Never underestimate the determination of a kid who is time-rich and cash-poor. Cash
- The first casualty of any battle is the plan of attack. Any
- if it's not in my email archive, I don't know it Archive
- The United States of America was a pirate nation for the first one hundred years of its existence, ripping off the patents and trademarks of… Able
- The future's a weirder place than we thought it would be when we were little kids. Kids
- He hated it when adults told him he only felt the way he did because he was young. As if being young was like being… Adults
- The fact is, almost everything you do is collaborative. Somewhere out there, someone else had a hand it it. Almost Everything
- The companies are multinational--why should labor still stick to borders? Borders