Cory Doctorow Quotes
I'm of the opinion that science fiction writers suck at predicting the future. We mostly go around describing the present in futuristic clothes - (such as) Mary Shelley, Bill Gibson, and many others.
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So must the writer, whose productions should Take with the vulgar, be of vulgar mould.
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This field is not necessarily glamorous, nor does it often produce immediate results, but it seeks to increase our basic understanding of living processes.
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We are so Post-Modern that we don't realize how Post-Modern we are anymore.
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We must all learn to adjust with our surroundings.
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You haven't partied until you've partied at dawn in complete silence with Buddhist monks.
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It's a coincidence that most of the films I have done are to do with social causes.
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I know what it takes to be fast and I feel like every year I learn valuable lessons about how to be better the next time.
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It's nice to know when you're a part of a story, it's nice to know at least something about the beginning, middle, and end.
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I feel like 'Work' was a really good song for people to get to know me, as it's obviously biographical. With 'Bounce,' I wanted to make sure people know there's a fun side to me as well as the somber and serious one.
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It was treacherous. I think someone was injured. But I did love being there, we all did.
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Science is a beautiful gift to humanity; we should not distort it.
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I understood early on that the freedom of America is what made our way of life possible and that we should help other people live in freedom, too.
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I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods.
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The industrial way we fish for seafood is harming the marine habitats that all ocean life depends upon. Indiscriminate commercial fishing practices that include miles of driftnets, long lines with thousands of lethal hooks and bottom trawls are ruining ocean ecosystems by killing non-seafood species, including sea turtles and marine mammals.
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It's no use crying over spilt summits.
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There once was a demographic survey done to determine if money was connected to happiness and Ireland was the only place where this did not turn out to be true.
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I had wanted to be a sculptor throughout life, but to do so, I had to stop painting.
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I was watching the Danish version of 'The Killing' when I got the audition for 'The Fall,' and I loved it; it was so original. I approached 'The Fall' with that in mind. I'd no problem with the violence - it was very clear from the script how horrifying the crimes were and that had to be shown, without going to extremes.
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If you get up in the morning and think the future is going to be better, it is a bright day. Otherwise, it's not.
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I guess because I'm a liberal I think it's not people's natural instinct to be completely self-interested.
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A faithful lifehacker would use technology to avoid dead time and move on to the entertaining, more gratifying activities as soon as possible.
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I think it's also the case that I'm not as widely travelled, or as well-educated in history, as most of the other novelists I meet: so I have to write about my own country, at the present time, because it's more or less all I know about!
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I found an approach to investing that made enormous sense to me: rigorously analyzing a company's fundamentals, understanding exactly how it makes money, developing a view on the business's future prospects, and deciding if it's a good business.
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I'm of the opinion that science fiction writers suck at predicting the future. We mostly go around describing the present in futuristic clothes - (such as) Mary Shelley, Bill Gibson, and many others.
