254 Quotes by Cory Doctorow

Utopia is impossible; everyone who isn’t a utopian is a shmuck.

Beneath the red crosses was another insignia: CHP. California Highway Patrol. They were State Troopers.

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

But you technical people have a disease: it’s called ‘solutionism.’ You see every challenge as a problem and every problem as having a solution and every solution as being a piece of technology. You hare off after those solutions without ever stopping to see whether there’s another, worse problem that’ll burst into life the moment the current one is ’solved.

The law didn’t care if you were actually doing anything bad; they were willing to put you under the microscope just for being statistically abnormal.

The best way to be superhuman is to do things that you love with other people who love them, too. The only way to do that is to admit you’re doing it because you love it and if you do more than everyone, you’re still only doing that because that’s what you choose.

Gandhi admitted to beating his wife. He was a great man, but not a saint.” He swallowed. “No one mentions that Gandhi had all that violence inside him. I think it makes him better, because it means that his way wasn’t just some natural instinct he was born with. It was something he battled for, in his own mind, every day.

Any time you had a cipher, you were vulnerable to someone smarter than you coming up with a way of breaking it.

So it fell to Lil to make sure that there were no bugs in the meager attractions of Liberty Square: the Hall of the Presidents, the Liberty Belle riverboat, and the glorious Haunted Mansion, arguably the coolest attraction to come from the fevered minds of the old-time Disney Imagineers.