254 Quotes by Cory Doctorow

The future’s a weirder place than we thought it would be when we were little kids.

It was so easy for an old normal to make way for a new one, so easy to blot the memories of that old normal. That was a skill that had served her well, but in that bite and its honey, she’d counted the cost for the first time.

Carlton Mellick III is one of bizarro fiction’s most talented practitioners, a virtuoso of the surreal, science fictional tale.

She was forty-five minutes late to work that day, but she had toast for breakfast. Goddamnit.

But now I think that there’s no reason that Mrs. Dotta’s job is more important than my mother’s job. Mamaji wouldn’t have a job without Mrs. Dotta’s factory, but Mrs. Dotta wouldn’t have a factory without Mamaji’s work, right?

Botnets are supremely powerful, since they can comprise thousands, even hundreds of thousands of computers, scattered all over the Internet, connected to juicy high-speed connections and running on fast home PCs. Those PCs normally function on behalf of their owners, but when the botmaster calls them, they rise like zombies to do his bidding.

Sometimes hard problems don’t have easy solutions.

I just sit down and the page just comes out and I look at it and the elements that appear on that page have a lot to do with what’s going on in my life.

Digital locks are roach motels: copyrighted works check in, but they don’t check out. Creators and investors lose control of their business – they become commodity suppliers for a distribution channel that calls all the shots. Anti-circumvention isn’t copyright protection: it’s middleman protection.