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Quotes from Petard: A Tale of Just Deserts — Cory Doctorow

born 1971 Canada

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All evil in the world is the result of an imbalance between the people who benefit from shenanigans and the people who get screwed by shenanigans.

Petard: A Tale of Just Deserts (2014)

Again, I was torn between the impulse to hang up on him and to hear more. Nosiness won (nosiness always wins; bets on nosiness are a sure thing).

Petard: A Tale of Just Deserts (2014)

Beautiful was not the opposite of terrible. The two could easily co-exist.

Petard: A Tale of Just Deserts (2014)

The problem isn’t that the world has the wrong kind of sellers; it’s that it has the wrong kind of buyers. Powerless, diffused, atomized, puny, and insubstantial.

Petard: A Tale of Just Deserts (2014)

Maybe it’s just an elaborate game of sound bites and kabuki gestures that are all calibrated to the precise sociopathic degree necessary to convey empathy and ethics without ever descending into either.

Petard: A Tale of Just Deserts (2014)

There were only two reasons to call me after something like this: to confess his sins or to get revenge. And no one would ever mistake me for a priest.

Petard: A Tale of Just Deserts (2014)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Cory Doctorow (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.