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
people people-can-change dead-people
Where there's life, there's hope. Living people can change things, dead people cannot.
writing world chaotic
Write even when the world is chaotic.
technology trying use
[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.
ideas people stuff
Engineers are all basically high-functioning autistics who have no idea how normal people do stuff.
keys giving wish
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.
country stupid winning
It's our goddamed city! It's our goddamed country. No terrorist can take it from us for so long as we're free. Once we're not free, the terrorists win! Take it back! You're young enough and stupid enough not to know that you can't possibly win, so you're the only ones who can lead us to victory! Take it back!
book roaches drm
... the Kindle is a "roach motel" device: its license terms and DRM ensure that books can check in, but they can't check out.
kings conversation
Conversation is king. Content is just something to talk about.
mistake decision rational
It is a mistake to let aesthetics drive your rational decision making.
privacy security hard
Like all security, privacy is hard.
funny educational school
If this prinicpal thinks blogging isn't educational, he needs his head examined: he should be seeking out every student blogger in the school and giving them special time to blog more - and giving them extra credit besides.
school different crime
Skipping school isn't a crime. It's an infraction. They're totally different.
calling want crooks
Put simply, I want to treat my readers as partners and not crooks. There is no future in calling your most active promoters crooks.
yesterday engineering care
We don’t care about what you did yesterday—we care about what you’re going to do tomorrow.