Quote by Cory Doctorow Download Open image ““A number is random if the simplest way to express it is by writing it down.”” — Cory Doctorow ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“Let us consider an even simpler example of a random variable, the number obtained when you throw just one die. (Pedantic note : this… — Christopher Dougherty Copy Share Image
“There's something very satisfying about numbers. Numbers are what they are. They are very straightforward. Unlike people.” — Joy Fielding Copy Share Image
“I prefer to think Of numbers not words Their precision Puts me at Ease with the Clarity of it all No grey no… — John Moran Copy Share Image
“The world is governed by chance. Randomness stalks us every day of our lives.” — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“Numbers arrange themselves the way numbers will, just as a word will, a story.” — Katharine Haake Copy Share Image
“When you have just a number or two that you want to communicate: use the numbers directly.” — Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic Copy Share Image
“When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it, when you cannot express it… — Lord Kelvin 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
