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The good news (for writers) i...

The good news (for writers) is that this means that ebooks on computers are more likely to be an enticement to buy the printed book (which is, after all, cheap, easily had, and easy to use) than a substitute for it. You can probably read just enough of the book off the screen to realize you want to be reading it on paper.

Cory Doctorow 87 quotes

If the best way to learn to s...

If the best way to learn to succeed is to fail as fast as possible, then the second-best way is to watch someone else fail as fast as possible. Watching someone else screw up is a kind of rehearsal for your own eventual downfall. A close observation of someone else's attempt to resolve a difficulty is a great way to acquire real-world insight into whether and when to deploy their method in your own times of trouble.

Cory Doctorow 87 quotes

Technology giveth and technol...

Technology giveth and technology taketh away.

Cory Doctorow 87 quotes

Freedom is something you have...

Freedom is something you have to take for yourself.

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There is no future in which b...

There is no future in which bits will be harder to copy than they are today ... Any business model that based on the idea that bits will be harder to copy is doomed.

Cory Doctorow 87 quotes

These days, tales of what Fac...

These days, tales of what Facebook did with its users during the singularity are commonly used to scare naughty children in Wales.

Cory Doctorow 87 quotes

Digital Distribution and the ...

Digital Distribution and the Whip Hand: Don't Get iTunesed with your eBooks

Cory Doctorow 87 quotes

Content isn't king. If I sent...

Content isn't king. If I sent you to a desert island and gave you the choice of taking your friends or your movies, you'd choose your friends -- if you chose the movies, we'd call you a sociopath. Conversation is king. Content is just something to talk about.

Cory Doctorow 87 quotes

Take it from someone who's re...

Take it from someone who's read the Wikipedia entry: this is how the Ottoman Empire was won: madden horsemen fueled by lethal jet-black coffee-mud.

Cory Doctorow 87 quotes

Carlton Mellick III is one of...

Carlton Mellick III is one of bizarro fiction's most talented practitioners, a virtuoso of the surreal, science fictional tale.

Cory Doctorow 87 quotes

Any outfit that can't figure ...

Any outfit that can't figure out clean toilets and decent theming on its own can't benefit from my advice.

Cory Doctorow 87 quotes

I fireballed him as he was se...

I fireballed him as he was seeking out treasure after we wiped out a band of orcs, playing rock-paper-scissors with each orc to determine who would prevail in combat. This is a lot more exciting than it sounds. It's quite civilized, and a little weird. You go running after someone through the woods, catch up with him, bare your teeth, and sit down to play a little roshambo.

Cory Doctorow 87 quotes

If this prinicpal thinks blog...

If this prinicpal thinks blogging isn't educational, he needs his head examined: he should be seeking out every student blogger in the school and giving them special time to blog more - and giving them extra credit besides.

Cory Doctorow 87 quotes

Stories are propaganda, virii...

Stories are propaganda, virii that slide past your critical immune system and insert themselves directly into your emotions.

Cory Doctorow 87 quotes

Write even when the world is ...

Write even when the world is chaotic. You don’t need a cigarette, silence, music, a comfortable chair, or inner peace to write. You just need ten minutes and a writing implement.

Cory Doctorow 87 quotes

The other one I did was "I, R...

The other one I did was "I, Robot." I take apart Isaac Asimov's Robots world.

Cory Doctorow 87 quotes

The real damage from terroris...

The real damage from terrorist attacks doesn't come from the explosion. The real damage is done after the explosion, by the victims, who repeatedly and determinedly attack themselves, giving over reason in favor of terror... Terrorism is about magnifying one mediagenic act of violence into one hundred billion acts of terrorized authoritarian idiocy.

Cory Doctorow 87 quotes

I'm not a lawyer I'm a kind o...

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.

Cory Doctorow 87 quotes

The future's a weirder place ...

The future's a weirder place than we thought it would be when we were little kids.

Cory Doctorow 87 quotes

Never underestimate the deter...

Never underestimate the determination of a kid who is time-rich and cash-poor.

Cory Doctorow 87 quotes

Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

Десять кинозвезд, которые отлично поют

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Актеры — люди творческие, но кто бы мог подумать, что некоторые из них скрывают прекрасный голос. В эпоху раннего Голливуда актеров с музыкальными способностями было немало — это считалось скорее норм...

Мэрилин Монро, Ким Кардашьян и другие

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Неузнаваемая Ким Кардашьян в объективе фотографа Маркуса Клинко, 2009 год. Памела Андерсон в самой первой съёмке для журнала «Playboy», 1990. На фото голливудская актриса Dorothy Lamour и шимпанзе Джи...

Что стало с детьми-звездами: Рэдклифф и компания спустя годы

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Расскажем, как сложилась судьба актеров, которые начинали сниматься еще в детстве.
Остаться на вершине в Голливуде удаётся не каждому, особенно если путь начался в детстве. Одни актёры теряются из-за...

Жизнь за границей: как изменились судьбы 7 уехавших телеведущих

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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

Кира Найтли, Деми Мур и другие

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....