Quotes by Cory Doctorow

“..[Enshittification] is a seemingly inevitable consequence arising from the combination of the ease of changing how a platform allocates value, combined with the nature of a two-sided market, where...”

“Right to repair has no cannier, more dedicated adversary than Apple, a company whose most innovative work is dreaming up new ways to sneakily sabotage electronics repair while claiming to be a cari...”

“AI cannot do your job, but an AI salesman can 100% convince your boss to fire you and replace you with an AI that can't do your job, and when the bubble bursts, the money-hemorrhaging foundation mo...”

“It’s logical, Sario said. Lots of people don’t like coping with logic when it dictates hard decisions. That’s a problem with people, not logic.”

“How’s your parents?She didn't manage to hide her smile. Their weirdness is terminal.”

“I lived in the future that they were talking about in the ride, but we didn't have progress anymore. We’d outgrown progress. What we had was change. Things changed whenever anyone wanted to change ...”

“There are lots of things I try not to dwell upon. The fact that this is all my fault is one of those things.”

“But she was one of those doctors who hadn’t gotten the memo from the American health-care system that says that you should only listen to a patient for three minutes, tops, before writing him a ref...”

“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 ...”

“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.”

“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 thi...”

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

“He was a pushy, self-righteous prig, but that didn’t mean he was wrong. Necessarily.”

“And don’t talk to me about having a positive attitude. The reason all those who’ve died of cancer croaked is because they had cancer, not because they were too gloomy.”

“Things are true or they aren’t, no matter how old the person saying them happens to be.”

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

“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 pock...”