Cory Doctorow Quotes

What's the point of a houseful of books you've already read?

You know, there comes a point where you're not giving advice anymore. There comes a point where you'...

I used to want to understand how the world worked. Little things, like heavy stuff goes at the botto...

Everyone wants a definition of creativity that makes what they do into something special and what ev...

The United States of America was a pirate nation for the first one hundred years of its existence, r...

What if I got hit by lightning while walking with an umbrella? Ban umbrellas! Fight the menace of li...

Every good thing comes to some kind of end, and then the really good things come to a beginning agai...

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

Businesses are great structures for managing big projects. It’s like trying to develop the ability t...

I'd never really believed in terrorists before--I mean, I knew that in the abstract there were terro...

It's our goddamed city! It's our goddamed country. No terrorist can take it from us for so long as w...

No, I mean I'm sorry that you've inherited such a miserable, collapsing Old Country. A place where r...

Once upon a time, my government turned my city into a police state, kidnapped me, and tortured me. W...

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

If you stare at someone long enough, they'll eventually look back at you.

The important thing is to convince people to make and share useful things. Fighting with greedy douc...

When in trouble or in doubt, run in circles, scream and shout.

Conversation is king. Content is just something to talk about.

We are the people of the book. We love our books. We fill our houses with books. We treasure books w...

Novels for me are how I find out what's going on in my own head. And so that's a really useful and i...

New media don’t succeed because they’re like the old media, only better: they succeed because they’r...

Every telecomm company is as big a corporate welfare bum as you could ask for. Try to imagine what i...

I think that I was too self-centered to ever develop good skills as a peacemaker. In my younger days...

Stories are propaganda, virii that slide past your critical immune system and insert themselves dire...

The number of games went up or down according to the brutal, elegant logic of the economics of fun:a...

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

We’re not making a world without greed, Jacob. We’re making a world where greed is a perversion. Whe...

Governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, t...

It's as if the railroad were looming on the horizon, and the most visionary thing the futurists of t...

Funny, for all surveillance, Osama bin Laden is still free—and we're not. Guess who's winning the "w...