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The FBI wants a backdoor only it can use – but wanting it doesn't make it possible http://theguardian.com/technology/2016/feb/24/the-fbi-wants-a-backdoor-only-it-can-use-but-wanting-it-doesnt-make-it-possible in The Guardian (24 February 2016)

„It's not necessarily about what career you pick. It's about how you do what you do.“

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— Cory Doctorow, Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town

Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town (2005)

„It was nice to think that the key to feeding nine billion people was to measure return on investment by maximizing calories and minimizing misery, instead of minimizing capital investment and maximizing retained earnings to shareholders.“

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— Cory Doctorow

Quelle: Short fiction, The Man Who Sold The Moon (2014), p. 166

„They just hated and feared us because our government hated and feared them.“

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— Cory Doctorow

Quelle: Short fiction, The Man Who Sold The Moon (2014), p. 154

„The problem with world hunger is that rich, powerful governments are more than happy to send guns and money to dictators and despots who’ll use food to control their populations and line their pockets. There is no ‘world hunger’ problem. There’s a corruption problem. There’s a greed problem. There’s a gullibility problem....”
“So there’s a corruption problem,” I said. “Point taken. How about if we make a solution for the corruption problem, then? Maybe we could build some kind of visualizer that shows you if your Congresscritter is taking campaign contributions from companies and then voting for laws that benefit them?“

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— Cory Doctorow

“What, you mean like every single one of them?”
Quelle: Short fiction, The Man Who Sold The Moon (2014), p. 149 (ellipsis represents a brief elision of text)

„Doesn’t matter how old the speaker is, it’s the words that matter.“

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— Cory Doctorow

Quelle: Short fiction, The Man Who Sold The Moon (2014), p. 148

„Existence proofs always trump theory. That’s engineering.“

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— Cory Doctorow

Quelle: Short fiction, The Man Who Sold The Moon (2014), p. 135

„Look, whatever else happiness is, it’s also some kind of chemical reaction. Your body making and experiencing a cocktail of hormones and other molecules in response to stimulus. Brain reward. A thing that feels good when you do it. We’ve had millions of years of evolution that gave a reproductive edge to people who experienced pleasure when something pro-survival happened. Those individuals did more of whatever made them happy, and if what they were doing more of gave them more and hardier offspring, then they passed this on.”
“Yes,” I said. “Sure. At some level, that’s true of all our emotions, I guess.“

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— Cory Doctorow

“I don’t know about that,” she said. “I’m just talking about happiness. The thing is, doing stuff is pro-survival—seeking food, seeking mates protecting children, thinking up better ways to hide from predators...Sitting still and doing nothing is almost never pro-survival, because the rest of the world is running around, coming up with strategies to outbreed you, to outcompete you for food and territory...If you stay still, they’ll race past you.”
Quelle: Short fiction, The Man Who Sold The Moon (2014), p. 130

„It turns out that teaching is one of those things like raising a kid or working out—sometimes amazing, often difficult and painful, but, in hindsight, amazing.“

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— Cory Doctorow

Quelle: Short fiction, The Man Who Sold The Moon (2014), p. 129

„Okay, this is the thing. We spend all our time doing, you know, stuff. Maintenance. Ninety-eight percent of the day, all you’re doing is thinking about what you’re going to be doing to go on doing what you’re doing. Worrying about whether you’ve got enough socked away to see you through your old age without ending up eating cat food. Worrying about whether you’re getting enough fiber or eating too many carbs. It’s being alive, but it’s hardly living.“

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— Cory Doctorow

Quelle: Short fiction, The Man Who Sold The Moon (2014), p. 114