Cory Doctorow Quotes

July 17, 1971

Cory Doctorow (born July 17, 1971) is a blogger, journalist and science fiction author in favor of liberalizing copyright laws.

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.

Microsoft Research DRM talk(17 June 2004)

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It is a mistake to let aesthetics drive your rational decision making.

Cory Doctorow
— Pwned: How copyright turns us all into IP serfs (February 22, 2007, UNC iBiblio)

Tags: mistake, aesthetics, drive, rational, decision, making

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I'm of the opinion that science fiction writers suck at predicting the future. We mostly go around describing the present in futuristic clothes - (such as) Mary Shelley, Bill Gibson, and many others.

Cory Doctorow
— Where is my flying car?. 3rd Degree (Sept 2007). Retrieved on 2008-05-15.

Tags: opinion, science, fiction, writers, suck, predicting, future, We, describing

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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.

Cory Doctorow
— Digital Distribution and the Whip Hand: Don't Get iTunesed with your eBooks. O'Reilly (Feb 9-11 2009). Retrieved on 2009-05-06.

Tags: time, someone, lock, something, you, own, against, wishes, give

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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.

Cory Doctorow
— BBC photographer prevented from shooting St Paul's because he might be "al Qaeda operative" Cory Doctorow Nov 30, 2009

Tags: real, damage, terrorist, attacks, explosion, done, after, victims, who

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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.

Cory Doctorow
— Why I won't buy an iPad (and think you shouldn't, either) on Boing Boing (2 April 2010)

Tags: Open, platforms, experimental, amateurs, eventually, beat, slick, pros, Relying

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First-time novelists have a tough row to hoe. Our publishers don’t have a lot of promotional budget to throw at unknown factors like us. Mostly, we rise and fall based on word-of-mouth.

Cory Doctorow
— "A note about this book, January 9, 2003

Tags: novelists, tough, row, hoe, Our, publishers, promotional, budget, throw

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