{"author":"Cory Doctorow","author_id":"Cory+Doctorow","total_quotes":30,"quotes":[{"text":"It's our goddamed city! It's our goddamed country. No terrorist can take it from us for so long as we're free. Once we're not free, the terrorists win! Take it back! You're young enough and stupid enough not to know that you can't possibly win, so you're the only ones who can lead us to victory! Take it back!","author":"Cory Doctorow","tags":["freedom","rebellion","terrorism"],"id":10483,"author_id":"Cory+Doctorow"},{"text":"Businesses are great structures for managing big projects. It’s like trying to develop the ability to walk without developing a skeleton. Once in a blue moon, you get an octopus, but for the most part, you get skeletons. Skeletons are good shit.","author":"Cory Doctorow","tags":["business","economics","evolution"],"id":45050,"author_id":"Cory+Doctorow"},{"text":"Conversation is king. Content is just something to talk about.","author":"Cory Doctorow","tags":["communication","internet","media"],"id":63345,"author_id":"Cory+Doctorow"},{"text":"You know, there comes a point where you're not giving advice anymore. There comes a point where you're just moralizing, demonstrating your hypothetical superiority when it comes to doing the right thing. That's not very fucking helpful, you know. I'm holding my shit together right now, and rather than telling me that it's not enough, you could try to help me with the stuff I'm capable of.","author":"Cory Doctorow","tags":["advice","help"],"id":103320,"author_id":"Cory+Doctorow"},{"text":"New media don’t succeed because they’re like the old media, only better: they succeed because they’re worse than the old media at the stuff the old media is good at, and better at the stuff the old media are bad at. Books are good at being paperwhite, high-resolution, low-infrastructure, cheap and disposable. Ebooks are good at being everywhere in the world at the same time for free in a form that is so malleable that you can just pastebomb it into your I'm session or turn it into a page-a-day mailing list.","author":"Cory Doctorow","tags":["books","disruptionp","ebooks","media"],"id":116606,"author_id":"Cory+Doctorow"},{"text":"Never underestimate the determination of a kid who is time-rich and cash-poor.","author":"Cory Doctorow","tags":["boredom","determination","hackers"],"id":146027,"author_id":"Cory+Doctorow"},{"text":"Everyone wants a definition of creativity that makes what they do into something special and what everyone else does into nothing special. But the fact is, we're all creative. We come up with weird and interesting ideas all the time. The biggest difference between 'creators' isn't their imagination - it's how hard they work. Ideas are easy. Doing stuff is hard.","author":"Cory Doctorow","tags":["creativity"],"id":146265,"author_id":"Cory+Doctorow"},{"text":"No, I mean I'm sorry that you've inherited such a miserable, collapsing Old Country. A place where rich Bankers own everything, where you've got to be grateful for a part-time job with no benefits and no retirement plan, where the most health insurance you can afford is being careful and hoping you don't get sick, where --.","author":"Cory Doctorow","tags":["health-care","insurance","truth","world"],"id":149708,"author_id":"Cory+Doctorow"},{"text":"Novels for me are how I find out what's going on in my own head. And so that's a really useful and indeed critical thing to do when you do as many of these other things as I do.","author":"Cory Doctorow","tags":["novels","thought","writing"],"id":162493,"author_id":"Cory+Doctorow"},{"text":"I'd never really believed in terrorists before--I mean, I knew that in the abstract there were terrorists somewhere in the world, but they didn't really represent any risk to me. There were millions of ways that the world could kill me--starting with getting run down by a drunk burning his way down Valencia--that were infinitely more likely and immediate than terrorists. Terrorists kill a lot fewer people than bathroom falls and accidental electrocutions. Worrying about them always struck me as about as useful as worrying about getting hit by lightning.","author":"Cory Doctorow","tags":["danger","death","risk","terrorism","terrorists","worrying"],"id":166426,"author_id":"Cory+Doctorow"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":30,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}