Engineers are all basically high-functioning autistics who have no idea…

Engineers are all basically high-functioning autistics who have no idea how normal people do stuff.

Eastern Standard Tribe

Other Cory Doctorow Quotes

I think that if I’m still here in ten thousand years, I’m going to be crazy as hell. Ten thousand years, pal! Ten thousand years ago, the state-of-the-art was a goat. You really think you’re going to be anything recognizably human in a hundred centuries? - View Quote Details on I think that if I’m still here in ten thousand…
This is why I loved technology: if you used it right, it could give you power and privacy. - View Quote Details on This is why I loved technology: if you used it…
The Bitchun Society had all but done away with any sort of dull, repetitious labor, and what remained—tending bar, mopping toilets—commanded Whuffie aplenty and a life of leisure in your off-hours. - View Quote Details on The Bitchun Society had all but done away with any…
I’m not a lawyer— I’m a kind of mouthpiece/activist type, though occasionally they shave me and stuff me into my Bar Mitzvah suit and send me to a standards body or the UN to stir up trouble. I spend about three weeks a month on the road doing completely weird stuff like going to Microsoft to talk about DRM. - View Quote Details on I’m not a lawyer— I’m a kind of mouthpiece/activist type,…
Abnormal is so common, it’s practically normal. - View Quote Details on Abnormal is so common, it’s practically normal.
First-time novelists have a tough row to hoe. Our publishers don’t have a lot of promotional budget to throw at unknown factors like us. Mostly, we rise and fall based on word-of-mouth. - View Quote Details on First-time novelists have a tough row to hoe. Our publishers…
I lived long enough to see the cure for death; to see the rise of the Bitchun Society, to learn ten languages; to compose three symphonies; to realize my boyhood dream of taking up residence in Disney World; to see the death of the workplace and of work. - View Quote Details on I lived long enough to see the cure for death;…
All secrets are deep. All secrets become dark. That’s in the nature of secrets. - View Quote Details on All secrets are deep. All secrets become dark. That’s in…
The universe gets older. So do I. So does my backup, sitting in redundant distributed storage dirtside, ready for the day that space or age or stupidity kills me. It recedes with the years, and I write out my life longhand, a letter to the me that I’ll be when it’s restored into a clone somewhere, somewhen. It’s important that whoever I am then knows about this year, and it’s going to take a lot of tries for me to get it right. - View Quote Details on The universe gets older. So do I. So does my…
I swore I’d be done, and that would be the end of it. And now I am. There isn’t a single place left on-world that isn’t part of the Bitchun Society. There isn’t a single thing left that I want any part of. - View Quote Details on I swore I’d be done, and that would be the…