254 Quotes by Cory Doctorow

YA doesn't get librarians fired!

Face-book has all the social graces of a nose-picking, hyperactive six-year-old, standing at the threshold of your attention and chanting, “I know something, I know something, I know something, won’t tell you what it is!

He had them as spellbound as a room full of Ewoks listening to C-3PO.

It's as if the railroad were looming on the horizon, and the most visionary thing the futurists of the day can think of to say about it is that these iron horses will have a disastrous effect on the hardworking manufacturers of oat-bags for horses.

Never underestimate the determination of a kid who is time-rich and cash-poor.

These days, tales of what Facebook did with its users during the singularity are commonly used to scare naughty children in Wales.

What you’ve got to understand, son,” says the doctor, “is it’s all the fault of the alien space bats.

Governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, that whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness.

Once you get to naming your laptop, you know that you're really having a deep relationship with it.