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When in problem, or in doubt, run in cirles, scream and shout
— Cory Doctorow
It was the fact that there was all this terrible stuff and no one seemed to be able to do anything about it.
— Cory Doctorow
The Kindle is a "roach motel" device: its license terms and DRM ensure that books can check in, but they can't check out.
— Cory Doctorow
Carlton Mellick III is one of bizarro fiction's most talented practitioners, a virtuoso of the surreal, science fictional tale.
— Cory Doctorow
We don't care about what you did yesterday - we care about what you're going to do tomorrow.
— Cory Doctorow
When in trouble or in doubt, run in circles, scream and shout.
— Cory Doctorow
the most expensive champagne in the world is cheap when compared with inkjet ink, which costs all of a penny a gallon to make wholesale.
— Cory Doctorow
The first casualty of any battle is the plan of attack.
— Cory Doctorow
We have a name for things that don't copy themselves: dead.
— Cory Doctorow
Any outfit that can't figure out clean toilets and decent theming on its own can't benefit from my advice.
— Cory Doctorow
I mean, you can't be a revolutionary after the revolution, can you? Didn't we all struggle so that kids like Lil wouldn't have to?
— Cory Doctorow
I'm not magic. You lead yourselves.
— Cory Doctorow
Where there's life, there's hope. Living people can change things, dead people cannot.
— Cory Doctorow
He's a sucking chest wound of a human being. But if you're going to have a jailer, better a clueless one than one who's really on the ball.
— Cory Doctorow
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.
— Cory Doctorow
These days, tales of what Facebook did with its users during the singularity are commonly used to scare naughty children in Wales.
— Cory Doctorow
Somewhere, in a distant land he barely knew the name of, people had stopped buying washing machines, and so his city had died.
— Cory Doctorow
This life is real too. We're communicating aren't we?
— Cory Doctorow
It's part of a cycle of stories I'm writing where I deconstruct classic science fiction.
— Cory Doctorow
Funny, for all surveillance, Osama bin Laden is still free-and we're not. Guess who's winning the war on terror?
— Cory Doctorow
It's hard not to like Asimov; he's a really likable guy.
— Cory Doctorow
Any time you had a cipher, you were vulnerable to someone smarter than you coming up with a way of breaking it.
— Cory Doctorow
Abnormal is so common, it's practically normal.
— Cory Doctorow
Stories are propaganda, virii that slide past your critical immune system and insert themselves directly into your emotions.
— Cory Doctorow
Once you get to naming your laptop, you know that you're really having a deep relationship with it.
— Cory Doctorow
What's the point of a houseful of books you've already read?
— Cory Doctorow
Utopia is impossible; everyone who isn't a utopian is a shmuck.
— Cory Doctorow
We roared. We were one big animal throat, roaring.
— Cory Doctorow
if it's not in my email archive, I don't know it
— Cory Doctorow
Conversation is king. Content is just something to talk about.
— Cory Doctorow
I'd rather be a criminal underground than a secret police.
— Cory Doctorow
My feelings towards Scott Card are pretty mixed. Politically, he and I are pretty far apart.
— Cory Doctorow
This sounds like you're saying that national security is more important than the Constitution.
— Cory Doctorow
I felt one hundred feet tall, made of solid gold, and on fire.
— Cory Doctorow
I've always loved just learning stuff for its own sake. Just to be smarter about the world around me.
— Cory Doctorow
We were dancing, lost in the godbeat and the thrash and the screamingTAKE IT BACK! TAKE IT BACK! — Cory Doctorow
the momentous arises only from the trivial.
— 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
So far, I've managed to spend more time free than behind bars. Paranoia is my friend.
— Cory Doctorow
This is why I loved technology: if you used it right, it could give you power and privacy.
— Cory Doctorow
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.
— Cory Doctorow
No one should do a job he can do in his sleep.
— Cory Doctorow
Internet Explorer, Microsoft's crashware turd that no one under the age of forty used voluntarily.
— Cory Doctorow
my problem isn't piracy, it's obscurity
— Cory Doctorow
Like all security, privacy is hard.
— Cory Doctorow
Sysadmins don't take holidays
— Cory Doctorow
Of course, it couldn't last. Those whom the gods would destroy utterly, they first give a taste of heaven.
— Cory Doctorow
The accolade of your peers is very exciting, always. There's lots of good stuff on the ballot.
— Cory Doctorow
I choose YouTube over telly.
— Cory Doctorow
For decades, computers have been helping us to remember, but now it's time for them to help us to ignore.
— Cory Doctorow
Otto von Bismarck quipped, Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.
— Cory Doctorow
Marcus is a great example of that way of thinking. He's always looking for ways a security system fails.
— Cory Doctorow
What you've got to understand, son," says the doctor, "is it's all the fault of the alien space bats.
— Cory Doctorow
Terrorism is about magnifying one mediagenic act of violence into one hundred billion acts of terrorized authoritarian idiocy.
— Cory Doctorow
Beneath the red crosses was another insignia: CHP. California Highway Patrol. They were State Troopers.
— Cory Doctorow
Engineers are all basically high-functioning autistics who have no idea how normal people do stuff.
— Cory Doctorow
I think that Utopia is a theory of human action ...
— Cory Doctorow
You're taking the bus around Burbank?" Lester said. "Christ, Perry, this is Los Angeles. Even homeless people drive cars.
— Cory Doctorow
Every good thing comes to some kind of end, and then the really good things come to a beginning again.
— Cory Doctorow
Dude, estoy aqui por loco, no por pendejo, which was the punch line to the funniest Spanish joke I knew. Okay, the only one. Google it.
— Cory Doctorow
Put simply, I want to treat my readers as partners and not crooks. There is no future in calling your most active promoters crooks.
— 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
Content isn't king. Conversation is.
— Cory Doctorow
Run in circles, scream and shout,
— Cory Doctorow
Content," huh? Ha! Where's the container?
— Cory Doctorow
I'd never been a tall guy, and the girls I'd dated had all been my heightteenaged girls grow faster than guys, which is a cruel trick of nature. — Cory Doctorow
It is not gender, nor age, nor race, but your ability to work hard at what you love.
— Cory Doctorow
What if I got hit by lightning while walking with an umbrella? Ban umbrellas! Fight the menace of lightning!
— Cory Doctorow
