No one should do a job he can do in…
No one should do a job he can do in his sleep.
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Other Cory Doctorow Quotes
- There’s something to the idea of the autonomous character. Big chunks of our wetware are devoted to simulating other people, trying to figure out if we are likely to fight or fondle them. It’s unsurprising that when you ask your brain to model some other person, it rises to the task. But that’s exactly what happens to a reader when you hand your book over to him: he simulates your characters in his head, trying to interpret that character’s actions through his own lens. - View Quote Details on There’s something to the idea of the autonomous character. Big…
- 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…
- It’s not necessarily about what career you pick. It’s about how you do what you do. - View Quote Details on It’s not necessarily about what career you pick. It’s about…
- Engineers are all basically high-functioning autistics who have no idea how normal people do stuff. - View Quote Details on Engineers are all basically high-functioning autistics who have no idea…
- 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 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…
- 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…
- 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,…
- 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…
- It is a mistake to let aesthetics drive your rational decision making. - View Quote Details on It is a mistake to let aesthetics drive your rational…
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