254 Quotes by Cory Doctorow

Write even when the world is chaotic.

[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.

Engineers are all basically high-functioning autistics who have no idea how normal people do stuff.

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.

It is a mistake to let aesthetics drive your rational decision making.

Like all security, privacy is hard.

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.

Skipping school isn't a crime. It's an infraction. They're totally different.

The fact is, almost everything you do is collaborative. Somewhere out there, someone else had a hand it it.