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Cory Doctorow Quotes

Cory Doctorow quotes

Canadian Journalist July 17, 1971

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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 DRM, they go out and buy the cracked books or download the cracked books for free. It’s only people who are foolish enough to pay for them that get locked into these platforms. Cory Doctorow
The Bill of Rights was written before data-mining," he said. He was awesomely serene, convinced of his rightness. "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 hanging out with gangbangers and terrorists? Cory Doctorow
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 insane or drunk, like the convictions he held were hallucinations caused by a mental illness that could only be cured by waiting five years. Cory Doctorow
Cory Doctorow quote: "Stories are propaganda, virii that slide past your critical..."
Stories are propaganda, virii that slide past your critical immune system and insert themselves directly into your emotions. 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. Cory Doctorow
Giant letters march across the dome of the sky: HOME NOT FOUND. Huw, who knows Comic Sans when she sees it, winces in mild disgust. Cory Doctorow
It's the stupid questions that have some of the most surprising and interesting answers. Most people never think to ask the stupid questions. Cory Doctorow
Cory Doctorow quote: "What you’ve got to understand, son,” says the doctor, “is it’s..."
What you’ve got to understand, son,” says the doctor, “is it’s all the fault of the alien space bats. Cory Doctorow
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, the terrorists win! Take it back! You're young enough and stupid enough not to know that you can't possibly win, so you're the only ones who can lead us to victory! Take it back! Cory Doctorow
Cory Doctorow quote: "You’re taking the bus around Burbank?” Lester said. “Christ,..."
You’re taking the bus around Burbank?” Lester said. “Christ, Perry, this is Los Angeles. Even homeless people drive cars. Cory Doctorow
Cory Doctorow quote: "We were dancing, lost in the godbeat and the thrash and the..."
We were dancing, lost in the godbeat and the thrash and the screaming--TAKE IT BACK! TAKE IT BACK! Cory Doctorow
Cory Doctorow quote: "The future's a weirder place than we thought it would be when..."
The future's a weirder place than we thought it would be when we were little kids. Cory Doctorow
The number of games went up or down according to the brutal, elegant logic of the economics of fun: a certain amount of difficultyplusa certain amount of your friendsplusa certain amount of interesting strangersplusa certain amount of rewardplusa certain amount of opportunityequaledfun Cory Doctorow
We're going to fight this battle with everything we have, and we will probably lose. But then we will fight it again, and we will lose a little less, for this battle will win us many supporters. And then we'll lose *again*. And *again*. And we will fight on. Because as hard as it is to win by fighting, it's impossible to win by doing nothing. Cory Doctorow
Cory Doctorow quote: "My feelings towards Scott Card are pretty mixed. Politically,..."
My feelings towards Scott Card are pretty mixed. Politically, he and I are pretty far apart. Cory Doctorow

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