Quotes from Cory Doctorow

If you want to double your success rate, triple your failure rate.

He had them as spellbound as a room full of Ewoks listening to C-3PO.

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

Abnormal is so common, it's practically normal.

The first casualty of any battle is the plan of attack.

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.

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.

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.

We're going to fight this battle with everything we have, and we will probably lose. But then we will fight it again, and we will lose a little less, for this battle will win us many supporters. And then we'll lose *again*. And *again*. And we will fight on. Because as hard as it is to win by fighting, it's impossible to win by doing nothing.

Once you get to naming your laptop, you know that you're really having a deep relationship with it.

the Kindle is a "roach motel" device: its license terms and DRM ensure that books can check in, but they can't check out.

I don't know anything about press conferences." "Oh, just Google it. I'm sure someone's written an article on holding a successful one. I mean, if the President can manage it, I'm sure you can. He looks like he can barely tie his shoes without help.

Governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, that whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness.

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

It's hard not to like Asimov; he's a really likable guy.

Put simply, I want to treat my readers as partners and not crooks. There is no future in calling your most active promoters crooks.