Cory Doctorow

We don't need to be told what to want. We want to want.

We remember our dead and their deaths, but the dead can't remember their own deaths or anything else, really, and we don't know what death is like.

Your life is a process of self-creation.

There's no such thing as a post-scarcity economy. There will always be art, and art is always scarce.

The world is full of people who're willing to call you an idiot. Don't make it easy for them.

No one ever said, 'You ought to be ashamed of yourself,' and looked ashamed of themselves.

Every man dies. Not every man really lives.

The opposite of love isn't hate; it's indifference.

The most important thing in life is to stop saying 'I wish' and start saying 'I will.'