Cory Doctorow
Cory Doctorow
Cory Efram Doctorowis a Canadian-British blogger, journalist, and science fiction author who serves as co-editor of the blog Boing Boing. He is an activist in favour of liberalising copyright laws and a proponent of the Creative Commons organization, using some of their licenses for his books. Some common themes of his work include digital rights management, file sharing, and post-scarcity economics...
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth17 July 1971
CityToronto, Canada
garden perfect definitions
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.
technology giving privacy
This is why I loved technology: if you used it right, it could give you power and privacy.
laptops deep-relationship knows
Once you get to naming your laptop, you know that you're really having a deep relationship with it.
running circles scream
Run in circles, scream and shout,
feelings cards
My feelings towards Scott Card are pretty mixed. Politically, he and I are pretty far apart.
mean successful shoes
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.
long cynical negative
If you stare at someone long enough, they'll eventually look back at you.
association social-network cop
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?
writing world chaotic
Write even when the world is chaotic.
hands digital distribution
Digital Distribution and the Whip Hand: Don't Get iTunesed with your eBooks
people people-can-change dead-people
Where there's life, there's hope. Living people can change things, dead people cannot.
ideas today copies
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.
guy hard
It's hard not to like Asimov; he's a really likable guy.
writing fiction stories
It's part of a cycle of stories I'm writing where I deconstruct classic science fiction.