quotes by Cory Doctorow

"When in trouble or in doubt, run in circles, scream and shout."
— Cory Doctorow

"Funny, for all surveillance, Osama bin Laden is still free—and we're not. Guess who's winning the "war on terror?"
— Cory Doctorow

"All secrets become deep. All secrets become dark. That's in the nature of secrets."
— Cory Doctorow (Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town)

""It's our goddamed city! It's our goddamed country. No terrorist can take it from us for so long as we're free. Once we're not free, the terrorists win! Take it back! You're young enough and stupid enough not to know that you can't possibly win, so you're the only ones who can lead us to victory! Take it back!" ~Trudy Doo, lead singer of the Speedwhores (from the book Little Brother)"
— Cory Doctorow

"I'm 17 years old. I'm not a straight-A student or anything. Even so, I figured out how to make an Internet that they can't wiretap. I figured out how to jam their person-tracking technology. I can turn innocent people into suspects and turn guilty people into innocents in their eyes. I could get metal onto an airplane or beat a no-fly list. I figured this stuff out by looking at the web and by thinking about it. If I can do it, terrorists can do it. They told us they took away our freedom to make us safe. Do you feel safe?"
— Cory Doctorow

""We roared. We were one big animal throat, roaring.""
— Cory Doctorow

"Skipping school isn't a crime. It's an infraction. They're totally different. (w1n5t0n)"
— Cory Doctorow (Little Brother)

"I'd never been a tall guy, and the girls I'd dated had all been my height--teenaged girls grow faster than guys, which is a cruel trick of nature."
— Cory Doctorow (Little Brother)

"We were dancing, lost in the godbeat and the thrash and the screaming--TAKE IT BACK! TAKE IT BACK!"
— Cory Doctorow (Little Brother)

"Right, and you point out something important which is that people who don’t want to pay, people who are pirates, don’t get bothered by the DRM, they go out and buy the cracked books or download the cracked books for free. It’s only people who are foolish enough to pay for them that get locked into these platforms."
— Cory Doctorow

"It's good versus evil, Dan. You don't want to be a post-person. You want to stay human. The rides are human. We each mediate them through our own experience. We're physically inside of them, and they talk to us through our senses. What Debra's people are building--it's hive-mind [stuff:]. Directly implanting thoughts! Jesus! It's not an experience, it's brainwashing!"
— Cory Doctorow (Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom)

"Conversation is king. Content is just something to talk about."
— Cory Doctorow

"The opposite of esprit d'escalier is the way that life's embarrassments come back to haunt us even after they're long past. I could remember every stupid thing I'd ever said or done, recall them with picture-perfect clarity. Any time I was feeling low, I'd naturally start to remember other times I felt that way, a hit parade of humiliations coming one after another to my mind."
— Cory Doctorow (Little Brother)