"The United States of America was a pirate……" — Cory Doctorow
"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 the imperial European powers it had liberated itself from by blood. By keeping their GDP at home, the U.S. revolutionaries were able to bootstrap their nation into an industrial powerhouse. Now, it seems, their descendants are bent on ensuring that no other country can pull the same trick off."
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66 Quotes by Cory Doctorow
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My feelings towards Scott Card are pretty mixed. Politically, he and I are pretty far apart.
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Freedom is something you have to take for yourself.
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