254 Quotes by Cory Doctorow

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

Stories become great by hacking your brain. Nothing that happens in fiction matters. The people in fiction are fictional so their triumphs and tragedies have literally no consequence. The death of the yogurt you doomed to a fiery death in your gut acid this morning is finitely more tragic than the “deaths” of Romeo and Juliet. The yogurt was alive and then it died. Romeo and Juliet never lived in the first place.

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.

So close the book and go. The world is full of security systems. Hack one of them.

No, I mean I’m sorry that you’ve inherited such a miserable, collapsing Old Country. A place where rich Bankers own everything, where you’ve got to be grateful for a part-time job with no benefits and no retirement plan, where the most health insurance you can afford is being careful and hoping you don’t get sick, where –.

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.

Anything invented before you were eighteen was there all along. Anything invented before you’re thirty is exciting and will change the world forever. Anything invented after that is an abomination and should be banned.

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

Internet Explorer, Microsoft’s crashware turd that no one under the age of forty used voluntarily.