Cory Doctorow Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
More Cory Doctorow quote about:
- Books,
- Computers,
- Giving,
- Past,
- Students,
- Technology,
- Terrorism,
- Terrorists,
- Winning,
- Writing,
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“Never underestimate the determination of a kid who is time-rich and cash-poor.”
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“Universal access to human knowledge is in our grasp, for the first time in the history of the world. This is not a bad thing.”
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“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 ten minutes and a writing implement.”
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“We don’t care about what you did yesterday—we care about what you’re going to do tomorrow.”
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“The fact is, almost everything you do is collaborative. Somewhere out there, someone else had a hand it it.”
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“Put simply, I want to treat my readers as partners and not crooks. There is no future in calling your most active promoters crooks.”
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“... the Kindle is a "roach motel" device: its license terms and DRM ensure that books can check in, but they can't check out.”
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“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 them special time to blog more - and giving them extra credit besides.”
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“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!”
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“It is a mistake to let aesthetics drive your rational decision making.”
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“Conversation is king. Content is just something to talk about.”
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“Any time someone puts a lock on something you own against your wishes, and doesn't give you the key, they're not doing it for your benefit.”
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“Governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, that whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness.”
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“If you stare at someone long enough, they'll eventually look back at you.”
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“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.”
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“[O]pen platforms and experimental amateurs ... eventually beat out the spendy, slick pros. ... Relying on incumbents to produce your revolutions is not a good strategy. They're apt to take all the stuff that makes their products great and try to use technology to charge you extra for it, or prohibit it altogether.”
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“Once you get to naming your laptop, you know that you're really having a deep relationship with it.”
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“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 a book, cut the spine off, lay each page on a scanner, run that .tif through an OCR (Optical Character Reader), hand edit the resulting output for errors and then post it online if you don't love the book. it can up to 80 hours to turn a printed novel into an eBook. I figure if someone out there is willing to put in 80 hours of work promoting my book, then I'd prefer they do it in a way that gives a better return to me.”
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“This is why I loved technology: if you used it right, it could give you power and privacy.”
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“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 Garden. Therefore, no rabbi is allowed to overturn any of his forebears' wisdom, since they are all, by definition, smarter than him.”
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“The real damage from terrorist attacks doesn't come from the explosion. The real damage is done after the explosion, by the victims, who repeatedly and determinedly attack themselves, giving over reason in favor of terror... Terrorism is about magnifying one mediagenic act of violence into one hundred billion acts of terrorized authoritarian idiocy.”
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“I'm not a lawyer I'm a kind of mouthpiece/activist type, though occasionally they shave me and stuff me into my Bar Mitzvah suit and send me to a standards body or the UN to stir up trouble. I spend about three weeks a month on the road doing completely weird stuff like going to Microsoft to talk about DRM.”
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“It is not gender, nor age, nor race, but your ability to work hard at what you love.”
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“It's part of a cycle of stories I'm writing where I deconstruct classic science fiction.”
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“Carlton Mellick III is one of bizarro fiction's most talented practitioners, a virtuoso of the surreal, science fictional tale.”
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“The important thing about security systems isn’t how they work, it’s how they fail.”
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“Stop in the middle of a sentence, leaving a rough edge for you to start from the nest day - that way, you can write three or five words without being “creative” and before you know it, you're writing.”
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“He had them as spellbound as a room full of Ewoks listening to C-3PO.”
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“The good news (for writers) is that this means that ebooks on computers are more likely to be an enticement to buy the printed book (which is, after all, cheap, easily had, and easy to use) than a substitute for it. You can probably read just enough of the book off the screen to realize you want to be reading it on paper.”
-- Cory Doctorow
