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What if I got hit by lightning...

What if I got hit by lightning while walking with an umbrella? Ban umbrellas! Fight the menace of lightning!

Cory Doctorow 87 quotes

If you've never programmed a c...

If you've never programmed a computer, you should. There's nothing like it in the whole world. When you program a computer, it does exactly what you tell it to do. It's like designing a machine Ђ' any machine, like a car, like a faucet, like a gas-hinge for a door Ђ' using math and instructions. It's awesome in the truest sense: it can fill you with awe.

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The big problem isn't piracy, ...

The big problem isn't piracy, it's obscurity.

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Run in circles, scream and sho...

Run in circles, scream and shout,

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My feelings towards Scott Card...

My feelings towards Scott Card are pretty mixed. Politically, he and I are pretty far apart.

Cory Doctorow 87 quotes

The right to freedom of associ...

The right to freedom of association is fine, but why shouldn't the cops be allowed to mine your social network to figure out if you're hanging out with gangbangers and terrorists?

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Freedom is something you have ...

Freedom is something you have to take for yourself.

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Each generation of rabbis is n...

Each generation of rabbis is necessarily less perfect than the rabbis that came before, since each generation is more removed from the perfection of the Garden. Therefore, no rabbi is allowed to overturn any of his forebears' wisdom, since they are all, by definition, smarter than him.

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Funny, for all surveillance, O...

Funny, for all surveillance, Osama bin Laden is still freeВ-and we're not. Guess who's winning the 'war on terror?

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All secrets become deep. All s...

All secrets become deep. All secrets become dark. That's in the nature of secrets.

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There are people already shari...

There are people already sharing eBooks out there, .. and they do it simply because they love books. You don't buy a second copy of a book, cut the spine off, lay each page on a scanner, run that .tif through an OCR (Optical Character Reader), hand edit the resulting output for errors and then post it online if you don't love the book. it can up to 80 hours to turn a printed novel into an eBook. I figure if someone out there is willing to put in 80 hours of work promoting my book, then I'd prefer they do it in a way th

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Write even when the world is c...

Write even when the world is chaotic.

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The idea that bigger haystacks...

The idea that bigger haystacks have more needles in them is dumb on its face

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It's our goddamed city! It's o...

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!

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We roared. We were one big ani...

We roared. We were one big animal throat, roaring.

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Conversation is king. Content ...

Conversation is king. Content is just something to talk about.

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I'm 17 years old. I'm not a st...

I'm 17 years old. I'm not a straight-A student or anything. Even so, I figured out how to make an Internet that they can't wiretap. I figured out how to jam their person-tracking technology. I can turn innocent people into suspects and turn guilty people into innocents in their eyes. I could get metal onto an airplane or beat a no-fly list. I figured this stuff out by looking at the web and by thinking about it. If I can do it, terrorists can do it. They told us they took away our freedom to make us safe. Do you feel s

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Stop in the middle of a senten...

Stop in the middle of a sentence, leaving a rough edge for you to start from the nest day - that way, you can write three or five words without being 'creativeЂќ and before you know it, you're writing.

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Skipping school isn't a crime....

Skipping school isn't a crime. It's an infraction. They're totally different.

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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

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....