Cory Doctorow Quotes

When you need to make a decision, don't let your emotions vote.

If I think something is beautiful, there must be somebody out there who will agree with me.

I always loved aesthetics. Not particularly fashion, but an idea of beauty.

I just think of things as beautiful or not. Can't you understand? I don't think of good or bad. Just of beautiful or ugly. I think a lot of nice things are ugly and a lot of nasty things are beautiful.

Politicians often like to suggest that their policies come about through objective thinking, but if you look at British fascists, for example, what you see - what I see - is a group of people coming to the decisions they came to because something happened to them when they were nine-years-old, or because of some deep prejudice that formed in them subsequent to that.

Thinking. A process by which I use my brain to make a rational decision.

I mistrust the judgment of every man in a case in which his own wished are concerned

My friend Terry says that when you need to make a decision, in your work or otherwise, and you don’t know what to do, just do one thing or the other, because the worst that can happen is that you will have made a terrible mistake.

The great thing about fact-based decisions is that they overrule the hierarchy.

Frustration is the mother of risk.

Never make a decision when you need to pee.

That was my decision, so I have to be responsible for that. It was one of the biggest mistakes of my life and I don't have a good reason for why I wanted to come back, I don't have a good reason for doing it all.

Poor planning or poor execution of plans is simply to let some force other than reason shape reality.

You will find that reason, which always ought to direct mankind, seldom does; but that passions and weaknesses commonly usurp itsseat, and rule in its stead.

Decisions should be based on facts, objectively considered what I call the fact-founded, thought-through approach to decision making.

If your belief system is not founded in an objective reality, you should not be making decisions that affect other people.

It is easier to rationalize than it is to be rational.

Knowing where things are, and why, is essential to rational decision making

Generally the reason they fail in the job is, you made some mistake in the hiring process in that you didn't match... them to the needs of your company accurately enough. That's the #1 reason this fails. And that's generally a good place to start: Here's where we are and here's what I didn't recognize about us and about you when I made the decision, and now it is what it is.

I believe in evidence-based decision making. I want to know what the facts are.

Of all the passions, fear weakens judgment most.

The essence of taste is suitability. Divest the word of its prim and priggish implications, and see how it expresses the mysterious demand of the eye and mind for symmetry, harmony and order.

The decision to give an indicative date for a return is a mistake. It degrades the process. It degrades human life.

Never let your emotions overrule your head.

It is better to pick the wrong priority than none at all.