254 Quotes by Cory Doctorow

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

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.

if it's not in my email archive, I don't know it

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

The idea that bigger haystacks have more needles in them is dumb on its face

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.

I think that Utopia is a theory of human action...

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.

Technology giveth and technology taketh away.