254 Quotes by Cory Doctorow

Digital Distribution and the Whip Hand: Don’t Get iTunesed with your eBooks.

It was the fact that there was all this terrible stuff and no one seemed to be able to do anything about it.

There was a time when my favorite thing in the world was putting on a cape and hanging out in hotels, pretending to be an invisible vampire whom everyone stared at.

Technology won’t save their asses. We know that better than anyone. Technology is a tool that gives us the space to make political change. Politics are a tool we use to open the space for making better technology. It’s like parallel parking: you go as far as you can in one direction, then back up and go as far as you can in the other. Use tech to make political achievements, use politics to improve tech. Back and forth.

A number is random if the simplest way to express it is by writing it down.

It was funny how I could feel all alone and under surveillance at the same time.

She had been beaten down by too many boys and men, too much hurt and poverty and fear. This was what Mala was destined to become, someone who ran from her attackers because she couldn’t afford to anger them. She wouldn’t do it.

Everyone failed to live up to their own ideals. She wanted to fall short of the best ideals.

The way out of a crisis was to deal with it as it was, not as you wished it were.