Cory Doctorow Quotes - Page 4

We roared. We were one big animal throat, roaring.

The other one I did was "I, Robot." I take apart Isaac Asimov's Robots world.

The accolade of your peers is very exciting, always. There's lots of good stuff on the ballot.

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.

Digital Distribution and the Whip Hand: Don't Get iTunesed with your eBooks

Content isn't king. If I sent you to a desert island and gave you the choice of taking your friends or your movies, you'd choose your friends -- if you chose the movies, we'd call you a sociopath. Conversation is king. Content is just something to talk about.

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.

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.

Stories are propaganda, virii that slide past your critical immune system and insert themselves directly into your emotions.

Terrorism is about magnifying one mediagenic act of violence into one hundred billion acts of terrorized authoritarian idiocy.

if it's not in my email archive, I don't know it

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.

These days, tales of what Facebook did with its users during the singularity are commonly used to scare naughty children in Wales.

Any outfit that can't figure out clean toilets and decent theming on its own can't benefit from my advice.

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.