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Overclocked: Stories of the Future Present QUOTES

Overclocked: Stories of the Future Present QUOTES

1 " 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 , Overclocked: Stories of the Future Present

2 " It's as if the railroad were looming on the horizon, and the most visionary thing the futurists of the day can think of to say about it is that these iron horses will have a disastrous effect on the hardworking manufacturers of oat-bags for horses. "

― Cory Doctorow , Overclocked: Stories of the Future Present

3 " But beautiful was not the opposite of terrible. The two could easily coexist. "

― Cory Doctorow , Overclocked: Stories of the Future Present

4 " Bless the wooly alt. hierarchy and all those who sail in her. "

― Cory Doctorow , Overclocked: Stories of the Future Present

5 " the American worker’s enemy isn’t the Mexican worker, it’s the auto manufacturer who screws both of them. "

― Cory Doctorow , Overclocked: Stories of the Future Present

6 " Any time I’m at work at 2:00 a.m., it’s either PEBKAC or Microsloth. "

― Cory Doctorow , Overclocked: Stories of the Future Present