Cory Doctorow Quotes

Nobody can be exactly like me. Even I have trouble doing it.

I couldn't imitate anyone if I wanted to.

Thing is - I'm easily imitated, never duplicated.

I'm not a mimic.

Be different; be unique; be yourself.

No two men are just alike. Every new life is a new thing under the sun; there has never been anything like it before, and never will be again.

..I wanted to create music that was so different that my mother could tell me from anyone else

Find comfort in the knowledge that no imitator ever comes off as well as the original.

I like the fact people consider me unique, one of a kind.

According to one influential wing of modern secular society there are few more disreputable fates than to end up being 'like everyone else' for 'everyone else' is a category that comprises the mediocre and the conformist, the boring and the suburban. The goal of all right-thinking people should be to mark themselves off from the crowd and 'stand out' in whatever way their talents allow.

I'm sure people would argue this, but I want to be different in everything I do. I don't think I've been the same in anything I've done, and I want to keep that up.

There are so many people who are clever. There are 8000 people at Princeton who are more clever than the three of us at this table. BUT, we have the ability to give something that they don't have...which is us.

All cases are unique and very similar to others.

The creative phase of an idea coincides with the period during which it insists, cantankerously, on its boundaries, on what makes it different; but an idea becomes false and impotent when it seeks reconciliation, at cut-rate prices, with other ideas.

The thing that you think is imperfect about you, is the thing that makes you who you are. It separates you from everybody else.

If every one were cast in the same mould, there would be no such thing as beauty.

With all the things that you could be, you never could learn how to be me.

Being different is a talent. You illuminate what makes you special in the sea of sameness around you.

Instead of trying to blend in and be like everyone else, be proud of and celebrate your unique differences and qualities. A fruit salad is delicious precisely because each fruit maintains its own flavor.

There's so many people out there who try to imitate what I do but I am the original.

I have the belief that we are all created to be unique. We are supposed to be different and do those things that made us who we are.

You can never replace anyone because everyone is made up of such beautiful specific details.

I'm one in what I do and what I say and what I believe.

If you want to be different, do something different.

I think it would be a boring game if everybody was the same, just like it would be boring if you guys asked the same dumb questions.