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

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The fact was, there wasn't room on earth for a couple million gold-farmers to turn into high-paid video-game executives. The fact was, if you had to slice the pie into enough pieces to give one to everyone, you'd end up slicing them so thin you could see through them. "When 30,000 people share an apple, no one benefits -- especially not the apple." It was a quote one of his economics profs had kept written in the corner of his white-board, and any time a student started droning on about compassion for the poor, the old prof would just tap the board and say, "Are you willing to share your lunch with 30,000 people?

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The United States of America was a pirate nation for the first one hundred years of its existence, ripping off the patents and trademarks of the imperial European powers it had liberated itself from by blood. By keeping their GDP at home, the U.S. revolutionaries were able to bootstrap their nation into an industrial powerhouse. Now, it seems, their descendants are bent on ensuring that no other country can pull the same trick off.

Cory Doctorow

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

Cory Doctorow


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He hated it when adults told him he only felt the way he did because he was young. As if being young was like being insane or drunk, like the convictions he held were hallucinations caused by a mental illness that could only be cured by waiting five years.

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The fact is, almost everything you do is collaborative. Somewhere out there, someone else had a hand it it.

Cory Doctorow


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Somewhere, in a distant land he barely knew the name of, people had stopped buying washing machines, and so his city had died.

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It's the stupid questions that have some of the most surprising and interesting answers. Most people never think to ask the stupid questions.

Cory Doctorow


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The companies are multinational--why should labor still stick to borders?

Cory Doctorow


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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.

Cory Doctorow


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