Cory Doctorow Quotes

My feelings towards Scott Card are pretty mixed. Politically, he and I are pretty far apart.

It's hard not to like Asimov; he's a really likable guy.

The first casualty of any battle is the plan of attack.

Abnormal is so common, it's practically normal.

Disney is a delight, someone who ... sweeps those around him along on his dream.

Where there's life, there's hope. Living people can change things, dead people cannot.

Write even when the world is chaotic.

It's not necessarily about what career you pick. It's about how you do what you do.

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?

No one should do a job he can do in his sleep.

The companies are multinational--why should labor still stick to borders?

If surgeons don't get surgeon's block, then why are you allowed to get writer's block?

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.

I think that Utopia is a theory of human action.

What's the point of a houseful of books you've already read?

Every good thing comes to some kind of end, and then the really good things come to a beginning again.