Cory Doctorow Quotes
Engineers are all basically high-functioning autistics who have no idea how normal people do stuff.
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I kind of lost interest in school. I was never really that interested anyway. I was never academic. I didn't really go to school as much as I should have.
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Where you have the most armed citizens in America, you have the lowest violent crime rate. Where you have the worst gun control, you have the highest crime rate.
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If people get to the end of the record, then that is a treat.
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It is the function of the President, representing the executive principle, to execute the laws.
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I do not think that having children - I have three teenagers - keeps you young. The reverse. It thrusts you into a full-frontal confrontation with your own all-too-obvious maturity.
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Our bombs are smarter than the average high school student. At least they can find Kuwait.
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Questions that require answers are what keep readers going - and the place to start raising those questions is with your very first sentence.
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Girls, to me, growing up were very, very petty and didn't want me to succeed and didn't want the best for me.
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We shot 'Telusa Telusa' song in Bolivia. It took us 50 hours to get to the location. We shot in high altitudes, and oxygen cylinders were kept handy.
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Clinton has played a major role in giving companies like Cipla credibility, for which I will always be grateful.
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Over the years, God and St. Therese have kept me going no matter how bad things were.
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Only the consciousness of a purpose that is mightier than any man and worthy of all men can fortify and inspirit and compose the souls of men.
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I remember having an argument with Alan, I said the Queen's not just going to call the guy up and send him out to do it. And Alan says, well, how would a monarch give orders to her assassin.
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Only amazing designers think of the truly new.
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Temperamentally I'm not a natural producer, because I don't have the patience.
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Republicans have never been good at public relations.
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I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.
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Going to a concert is so overwhelming and the energy is amazing.
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Economics profession, they've been - they've been confident in various formulas, but economics is not physics. The same formula that works in one decade doesn't work in the next. Economics is a difficult subject.
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The big fish run the show. I'm a middle fish, but there are small fish that are poisonous.
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I've always loved clothes, especially handbags and shoes. I'd rather save my money on clothing and wear crap, but have the handbags and shoes. I used to buy a Ferragamo or Louis Vuitton bag every job that I got. Now I have a child, and we pay for private school, so I've had to scale back!
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The shell game that we play ... is technically called 'renormalization'. But no matter how clever the word, it is still what I would call a dippy process! Having to resort to such hocus-pocus has prevented us from proving that the theory of quantum electrodynamics is mathematically self-consistent. It's surprising that the theory still hasn't been proved self-consistent one way or the other by now; I suspect that renormalization is not mathematically legitimate.
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I believe an invitation from the Commission on Presidential Debates is similar to a draft notice - a civic responsibility.
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Engineers are all basically high-functioning autistics who have no idea how normal people do stuff.
