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Cory Efram Doctorow (/ˈkɒri ˈdɒktəroʊ/; born July 17, 1971) is a Canadian-British blogger, journalist, and science fiction author who serves as co-editor of the blog Boing Boing. He is an activist in favour of liberalising copyright laws and a proponent of the Creative Commons organization, using some of their licenses for his books. Some common themes of his work include digital rights management, file sharing, and post-scarcity economics.

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The fact is, almost everything you do is collaborative. Somewhere out there, someone else had a hand it it.

Everything, Fact, Facts, Hand, Hands, Somewhere Out There

Giant letters march across the dome of the sky: HOME NOT FOUND. Huw, who knows Comic Sans when she sees it, winces in mild disgust.

Disgust, Giants, Home, Sky, Winces

If this prinicpal thinks blogging isn't educational, he needs his head examined: he should be seeking out every student blogger in the school and giving them special time to blog more - and giving them extra credit besides.

Blog, Educational, Funny, Prinicpal, School, Special

Any outfit that can't figure out clean toilets and decent theming on its own can't benefit from my advice.

Advice, Benefits, Figure, Outfit, Toilets

. . . the Kindle is a "roach motel" device: its license terms and DRM ensure that books can check in, but they can't check out.

Book, Drm, Ensure, Roach, Roaches

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.

Dated, Faster, Girl, Guy, Height, Trick

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.

Abolish, Government, Happiness, Laying, Men, Power

Write even when the world is chaotic. You don’t need a cigarette, silence, music, a comfortable chair, or inner peace to write. You just need ten minutes and a writing implement.

Inner Peace, Minutes, Silence, Ten, Writing

There is no future in which bits will be harder to copy than they are today. . . Any business model that based on the idea that bits will be harder to copy is doomed.

Business, Harder, Ideas, Model, Today

We don’t care about what you did yesterday—we care about what you’re going to do tomorrow.

Care, Engineering, Tomorrow, Yesterday

Most of the books, music and movies ever released are not available for sale, anywhere in the world. In the brief time that P2P nets have flourished, the ad-hoc masses of the Internet have managed to put just about everything online. What's more, they've done it far cheaper than any other archiving
revival effort ever.

Book, Done, Effort, Masses, Nets, Sale

Content isn't king. If I sent you to a desert island and gave you the choice of taking your friends or your movies, you'd choose your friends -- if you chose the movies, we'd call you a sociopath. Conversation is king. Content is just something to talk about.

Choice, Choices, Islands, King, Kings, Movies

The accolade of your peers is very exciting, always. There's lots of good stuff on the ballot.

Ballot, Exciting, Peers, Stuff

I can't go underground for a year, ten years, my whole life, waiting for freedom to be handed to me. Freedom is something you have to take for yourself.

Underground, Waiting, Whole Life, Year, Years

He hated it when adults told him he only felt the way he did because he was young. As if being young was like being insane or drunk, like the convictions he held were hallucinations caused by a mental illness that could only be cured by waiting five years.

Drunk, Five, Hated, Waiting, Years

The companies are multinational--why should labor still stick to borders?

Borders, Companies, Labor, Should, Sticks

The big problem isn’t piracy, it’s obscurity.

Big, Bigs, Obscurity, Piracy, Problem

The other one I did was 'I, Robot. ' I take apart Isaac Asimov's Robots world.

Isaac, Robots, Take, World

It's hard not to like Asimov; he's a really likable guy.

Guy, Hard, Likable, Like

Any time someone puts a lock on something you own against your wishes, and doesn't give you the key, they're not doing it for your benefit.

Benefit, Giving, Keys, Lock, Wish, Wishes

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