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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. -- Cory Doctorow
It was like finding Attila the Hun at a yoga class. Like finding Darth Vader playing ultimate Frisbee in the park. Like finding Megatron volunteering at a children's hospital. Like finding Nightmare Moon having a birthday party at Chuck E. Cheese. -- Cory Doctorow
Real invention is a process of repeated, crushing failure that leads, very rarely, to a success. If you want to succeed faster, there's nothing for it but to fail faster and better. -- Cory Doctorow
Content isn't king. Conversation is. -- Cory Doctorow
Take it from someone who's read the Wikipedia entry: this is how the Ottoman Empire was won: madden horsemen fueled by lethal jet-black coffee-mud. -- Cory Doctorow
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. -- 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
Well, I don't know. It's long, it's longer than both of the other books put together, so it's more ambitious. I think I get under the skin of the people a lot more than in the other books. -- Cory Doctorow
Every time I go past a cinema and see a queue out the door, I think, look at those fools, every penny they spend is turned into profits that are used to pass laws imprisoning their own children. Can't they see? -- Cory Doctorow
I think we should permanently cut off the internet access of any company that sends out three erroneous copyright notices. Three strikes and you're out, mate. -- 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
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. -- Cory Doctorow
I think that I was too self-centered to ever develop good skills as a peacemaker. In my younger days, I assumed that it was because I was smarter than everyone else, with no patience for explaining things in short words for mouthbreathers who just didn't get it. -- Cory Doctorow
I don't know anything about press conferences."
"Oh, just Google it. I'm sure someone's written an article on holding a successful one. I mean, if the President can manage it, I'm sure you can. He looks like he can barely tie his shoes without help. -- Cory Doctorow
We don't care about what you did yesterday - we care about what you're going to do tomorrow. -- Cory Doctorow
Content," huh? Ha! Where's the container? -- Cory Doctorow
What if I got hit by lightning while walking with an umbrella? Ban umbrellas! Fight the menace of lightning! -- Cory Doctorow
This sounds like you're saying that national security is more important than the Constitution. -- Cory Doctorow
I can't go underground for a year, ten years, my whole life, waiting for freedom to be handed to me. Freedom is something you have to take for yourself. -- Cory Doctorow
Digital locks are roach motels: copyrighted works check in, but they don't check out. Creators and investors lose control of their business - they become commodity suppliers for a distribution channel that calls all the shots. Anti-circumvention isn't copyright protection: it's middleman protection. -- Cory Doctorow
The other one I did was 'I, Robot.' I take apart Isaac Asimov's Robots world. -- Cory Doctorow
I'd never been a tall guy, and the girls I'd dated had all been my height
teenaged girls grow faster than guys, which is a cruel trick of nature. -- Cory Doctorow
The fact is, almost everything you do is collaborative. Somewhere out there, someone else had a hand it it. -- Cory Doctorow
The companies are multinational
why should labor still stick to borders? -- Cory Doctorow
Engineers are all basically high-functioning autistics who have no idea how normal people do stuff. -- Cory Doctorow
Carlton Mellick III is one of bizarro fiction's most talented practitioners, a virtuoso of the surreal, science fictional tale. -- Cory Doctorow
It's not necessarily about what career you pick. It's about how you do what you do. -- Cory Doctorow
It's hard not to like Asimov; he's a really likable guy. -- Cory Doctorow
Complaining about the universe's unfairness is never part of a successful strategy. -- Cory Doctorow
Abnormal is so common, it's practically normal. -- Cory Doctorow
if it's not in my email archive, I don't know it -- Cory Doctorow
From there, it was time for dinner: roaring fires, meat popping on spits, tofu sizzling on skillets ((it's northern California, a vegetarian option is not optional), and a style of eating and drinking that can only be described as quaffing. -- Cory Doctorow
It's weirder and more surprising than the other books. I think there are more places where it's just more reality bending, deliberately so. I think it's a lot more emotionally raw. -- Cory Doctorow
my problem isn't piracy, it's obscurity -- Cory Doctorow
The accolade of your peers is very exciting, always. There's lots of good stuff on the ballot. -- Cory Doctorow
Internet Explorer, Microsoft's crashware turd that no one under the age of forty used voluntarily. -- Cory Doctorow
If surgeons don't get surgeon's block, then why are you allowed to get writer's block? -- Cory Doctorow
S security expert Bruce Schneier has said, Making bits harder to copy is like making water that's less wet. -- Cory Doctorow
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 us to do other things, making concentrating on a long-form work impractical. -- Cory Doctorow
Marcus is a great example of that way of thinking. He's always looking for ways a security system fails. -- Cory Doctorow
It's a story of little girls who are pressed into working in sweat shops in games, who spend all day doing repetitive grinding tasks like making shirts, which are then converted into gold and sold on eBay. -- Cory Doctorow
I hate that," I said. "It's like there's no human beings in the chain of responsibility, just things-that-happen. It's the ultimate cop-out. The system did it. The company did it. The government did it. What about the person who pulls the trigger? -- Cory Doctorow
It's as if the railroad were looming on the horizon, and the most visionary thing the futurists of the day can think of to say about it is that these iron horses will have a disastrous effect on the hardworking manufacturers of oat-bags for horses. -- Cory Doctorow
What's the point of a houseful of books you've already read? -- Cory Doctorow
The important thing about security systems isn't how they work, it's how they fail. -- 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
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 thing to do when you do as many of these other things as I do. -- Cory Doctorow
Making stuff: The folks at Instructables have put up some killer HOWTOs for building the technology in this book. It's easy and incredibly fun. There's nothing so rewarding in this world as making stuff, especially stuff that makes you more free. -- Cory Doctorow
Skipping school isn't a crime. It's an infraction. They're totally different. -- Cory Doctorow
Stories are propaganda, virii that slide past your critical immune system and insert themselves directly into your emotions. -- Cory Doctorow
He had them as spellbound as a room full of Ewoks listening to C-3PO. -- Cory Doctorow
Every good thing comes to some kind of end, and then the really good things come to a beginning again. -- Cory Doctorow
Communism is an interesting thing to do, nothing I ever want to be. -- Cory Doctorow
All secrets become deep. All secrets become dark. That's in the nature of secrets. -- Cory Doctorow
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. -- Cory Doctorow
I think that this misses out on some of the interesting narrative realities, which is that it actually doesn't work very well, that eliminating diversity is actually a really good way to make a species and its individuals less robust. -- Cory Doctorow
It was funny how I could feel all alone and under surveillance at the same time. -- 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
Every wonderful thing in our world has a fight in its history: our rights, our good fortune, our happiness. All that is sweet was paid for, once upon a time, by principled people who risked everything to change the world for the better. -- Cory Doctorow
She had been beaten down by too many boys and men, too much hurt and poverty and fear. This was what Mala was destined to become, someone who ran from her attackers because she couldn't afford to anger them. She wouldn't do it. -- Cory Doctorow
Terrorism is about magnifying one mediagenic act of violence into one hundred billion acts of terrorized authoritarian idiocy. -- 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
The idea that bigger haystacks have more needles in them is dumb on its face -- 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
Beneath the red crosses was another insignia: CHP. California Highway Patrol. They were State Troopers. -- Cory Doctorow
You're taking the bus around Burbank?" Lester said. "Christ, Perry, this is Los Angeles. Even homeless people drive cars. -- 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
Your problem is, you're trying to understand it. You need to just do it. -- Cory Doctorow
We have a name for things that don't copy themselves: dead. -- Cory Doctorow
I'm suspicious of any plan to fix unfairness that starts with 'step one, dismantle the entire system and replace it with a better one,' especially if you can't do anything else until step one is done. -- Cory Doctorow
Face-book has all the social graces of a nose-picking, hyperactive six-year-old, standing at the threshold of your attention and chanting, I know something, I know something, I know something, won't tell you what it is! -- Cory Doctorow
The proprietary advantage once enjoyed by companies who assembled teams under their own roofs and used them only on their own products has been surrendered in the rush to attain some semblance of "lean, efficient" flexibility. -- Cory Doctorow
It's part of a cycle of stories I'm writing where I deconstruct classic science fiction. -- Cory Doctorow
There is no future in which bits will be harder to copy than they are today ... Any business model that based on the idea that bits will be harder to copy is doomed. -- Cory Doctorow
Businesses are great structures for managing big projects. It's like trying to develop the ability to walk without developing a skeleton. Once in a blue moon, you get an octopus, but for the most part, you get skeletons. Skeletons are good shit. -- Cory Doctorow
I've always loved just learning stuff for its own sake. Just to be smarter about the world around me. -- Cory Doctorow
No one should do a job he can do in his sleep. -- Cory Doctorow
We roared. We were one big animal throat, roaring. -- Cory Doctorow
This life is real too. We're communicating aren't we? -- Cory Doctorow
It is not gender, nor age, nor race, but your ability to work hard at what you love. -- Cory Doctorow
Start at the beginning," he said. "Move one step in the direction of your goal. Remember that you can change direction to maneuver around obstacles. You don't need a plan, you need a vector. -- 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
My feelings towards Scott Card are pretty mixed. Politically, he and I are pretty far apart. -- 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
So far, I've managed to spend more time free than behind bars. Paranoia is my friend. -- 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
Conversation is king. Content is just something to talk about. -- 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
Any outfit that can't figure out clean toilets and decent theming on its own can't benefit from my advice. -- Cory Doctorow
The best way to be superhuman is to do things that you love with other people who love them, too. The only way to do that is to admit you're doing it because you love it and if you do more than everyone, you're still only doing that because that's what you choose. -- Cory Doctorow
People actually like supporting the artists whose work they like. It makes them feel happy. You don't have to force them. And if you force them, they don't feel as good. -- 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
But if you're not prepared to learn from the teachers that life gives you, you'll always be ignorant. -- Cory Doctorow
Otto von Bismarck quipped, Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made. -- Cory Doctorow
Like all security, privacy is hard. -- Cory Doctorow
But now I think that there's no reason that Mrs. Dotta's job is more important than my mother's job. Mamaji wouldn't have a job without Mrs. Dotta's factory, but Mrs. Dotta wouldn't have a factory without Mamaji's work, right? -- Cory Doctorow
When in trouble or in doubt, run in circles, scream and shout. -- Cory Doctorow
When in problem, or in doubt, run in cirles, scream and shout -- Cory Doctorow
I'm not magic. You lead yourselves. -- Cory Doctorow
For me
for pretty much every writer
the big problem isn't piracy, it's obscurity. -- Cory Doctorow
A number is random if the simplest way to express it is by writing it down. -- Cory Doctorow
Of course, it couldn't last. Those whom the gods would destroy utterly, they first give a taste of heaven. -- Cory Doctorow
It may be hard to monetize fame, but it is impossible to monetize obscurity. -- Cory Doctorow
All secrets are deep. All secrets become dark. That is in the nature of secrets -- Cory Doctorow
I choose YouTube over telly. -- Cory Doctorow
If you want to double your success rate, triple your failure rate. -- Cory Doctorow
Once you get to naming your laptop, you know that you're really having a deep relationship with it. -- 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
We were dancing, lost in the godbeat and the thrash and the screaming
TAKE IT BACK! TAKE IT BACK! -- Cory Doctorow
Never underestimate the determination of a kid who is time-rich and cash-poor. -- Cory Doctorow
It is a mistake to let aesthetics drive your rational decision making. -- Cory Doctorow
When you teach your students that it's "economically rational" to commit crimes where the fines for misconduct are lower than the expected return on the crime, you instill a professional ethic that has no room for morals. -- Cory Doctorow
There was a time when my favorite thing in the world was putting on a cape and hanging out in hotels, pretending to be an invisible vampire whom everyone stared at. -- Cory Doctorow
Run in circles, scream and shout, -- 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
Everything good in the world comes from the efforts of people who came before us. -- Cory Doctorow
The difference between reading a story and studying a story is the difference between living the story and killing the story and looking at its guts. -- 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
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
Utopia is impossible; everyone who isn't a utopian is a shmuck. -- Cory Doctorow
The first casualty of any battle is the plan of attack. -- Cory Doctorow
If you stare at someone long enough, they'll eventually look back at you. -- Cory Doctorow
I had this really great amazing thing happen where I almost finished the book and I really needed to come up with an ending and I decided to go back and re-read the book and see if I could come up with an ending. -- Cory Doctorow
Sysadmins don't take holidays -- 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
I just sit down and the page just comes out and I look at it and the elements that appear on that page have a lot to do with what's going on in my life. -- Cory Doctorow
the momentous arises only from the trivial. -- 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
The law didn't care if you were actually doing anything bad; they were willing to put you under the microscope just for being statistically abnormal. -- Cory Doctorow
I'd rather be a criminal underground than a secret police. -- Cory Doctorow
You want to be in charge of your machines, you have to learn to write code. -- 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
This is why I loved technology: if you used it right, it could give you power and privacy. -- Cory Doctorow
Where there's life, there's hope. Living people can change things, dead people cannot. -- Cory Doctorow
I felt one hundred feet tall, made of solid gold, and on fire. -- Cory Doctorow
Disney is a delight, someone who ... sweeps those around him along on his dream. -- Cory Doctorow
I think that Utopia is a theory of human action ... -- Cory Doctorow
Digital Distribution and the Whip Hand: Don't Get iTunesed with your eBooks -- Cory Doctorow
I want to just DO SOMETHING instead of ask someone else to start a process to investigate the possibility of someday possibly maybe doing something. -- Cory Doctorow
The future's a weirder place than we thought it would be when we were little kids. -- Cory Doctorow
So close the book and go. The world is full of security systems. Hack one of them. -- Cory Doctorow
I had spoken to the universe, and the universe hadn't given a damn. -- Cory Doctorow