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
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This is a fascinating phenomenon that evolved through the unexpected use of technology. It classically illustrates the way people find their own uses for technology.
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It is a mistake to let aesthetics drive your rational decision making.
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The important thing about security systems isn’t how they work, it’s how they fail.
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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.
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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.
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For decades, computers have been helping us to remember, but now it's time for them to help us to ignore.
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Any outfit that can't figure out clean toilets and decent theming on its own can't benefit from my advice.
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Carlton Mellick III is one of bizarro fiction's most talented practitioners, a virtuoso of the surreal, science fictional tale.
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We have a name for things that don't copy themselves: dead.
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The companies are multinational--why should labor still stick to borders?
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He had them as spellbound as a room full of Ewoks listening to C-3PO.
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if it's not in my email archive, I don't know it
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Abnormal is so common, it's practically normal.
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Once you get to naming your laptop, you know that you're really having a deep relationship with it.