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
dark secret criminal-mind
All secrets become deep. All secrets become dark. That's in the nature of secrets.
years waiting whole-life
I can't go underground for a year, ten years, my whole life, waiting for freedom to be handed to me. Freedom is something you have to take for yourself.
past slides stories
Stories are propaganda, virii that slide past your critical immune system and insert themselves directly into your emotions.
coffee black wikipedia
Take it from someone who's read the Wikipedia entry: this is how the Ottoman Empire was won: madden horsemen fueled by lethal jet-black coffee-mud.
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.
stupid thinking interesting
It's the stupid questions that have some of the most surprising and interesting answers. Most people never think to ask the stupid questions.
sticks borders should
The companies are multinational--why should labor still stick to borders?
years drunk waiting
He hated it when adults told him he only felt the way he did because he was young. As if being young was like being insane or drunk, like the convictions he held were hallucinations caused by a mental illness that could only be cured by waiting five years.
country home blood
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.
email archives knows
if it's not in my email archive, I don't know it
battle firsts casualties
The first casualty of any battle is the plan of attack.
war winning surveillance
Funny, for all surveillance, Osama bin Laden is still free—and we're not. Guess who's winning the "war on terror?
ideas dumb faces
The idea that bigger haystacks have more needles in them is dumb on its face
creativity ideas differences
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.