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 More Quotes by Cory Doctorow More Quotes From Cory Doctorow What if I got hit by lightning while walking with an umbrella? Ban umbrellas! Fight the menace of lightning! Cory Doctorow lightning what-if fighting We're going to fight this battle with everything we have, and we will probably lose. But then we will fight it again, and we will lose a little less, for this battle will win us many supporters. And then we'll lose *again*. And *again*. And we will fight on. Because as hard as it is to win by fighting, it's impossible to win by doing nothing. Cory Doctorow battle fighting winning 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 damage-is-done real giving 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 ethics return rooms Skipping school isn't a crime. It's an infraction. They're totally different. Cory Doctorow crime different school I choose YouTube over telly. Cory Doctorow youtube 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. Cory Doctorow microsoft body stuff It is not gender, nor age, nor race, but your ability to work hard at what you love. Cory Doctorow hard-work race age The important thing about security systems isn’t how they work, it’s how they fail. Cory Doctorow security-systems failing important There are people already sharing eBooks out there, .. and they do it simply because they love books. You don't buy a second copy of a book, cut the spine off, lay each page on a scanner, run that .tif through an OCR (Optical Character Reader), hand edit the resulting output for errors and then post it online if you don't love the book. it can up to 80 hours to turn a printed novel into an eBook. I figure if someone out there is willing to put in 80 hours of work promoting my book, then I'd prefer they do it in a way that gives a better return to me. Cory Doctorow running character book It's hard not to like Asimov; he's a really likable guy. Cory Doctorow hard guy If the best way to learn to succeed is to fail as fast as possible, then the second-best way is to watch someone else fail as fast as possible. Watching someone else screw up is a kind of rehearsal for your own eventual downfall. A close observation of someone else's attempt to resolve a difficulty is a great way to acquire real-world insight into whether and when to deploy their method in your own times of trouble. Cory Doctorow screw-ups real watches Terrorism is about magnifying one mediagenic act of violence into one hundred billion acts of terrorized authoritarian idiocy. Cory Doctorow terrorism hundred violence The other one I did was "I, Robot." I take apart Isaac Asimov's Robots world. Cory Doctorow robots isaac world The accolade of your peers is very exciting, always. There's lots of good stuff on the ballot. Cory Doctorow peers exciting stuff It's part of a cycle of stories I'm writing where I deconstruct classic science fiction. Cory Doctorow stories writing fiction Disney is a delight, someone who ... sweeps those around him along on his dream. Cory Doctorow delight dream Everyone wants a definition of creativity that makes what they do into something special and what everyone else does into nothing special. But the fact is, we're all creative. We come up with weird and interesting ideas all the time. The biggest difference between 'creators' isn't their imagination - it's how hard they work. Ideas are easy. Doing stuff is hard. Cory Doctorow creativity differences ideas Most of the books, music and movies ever released are not available for sale, anywhere in the world. In the brief time that P2P nets have flourished, the ad-hoc masses of the Internet have managed to put just about *everything* online. What's more, they've done it far cheaper than any other archiving/revival effort ever. Cory Doctorow effort book world Technology giveth and technology taketh away. Cory Doctorow technology
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