Cory Doctorow is a fast and furious storyteller who gets all the details of alternate reality gaming right, while offering a startling, new vision of how these games might play out in the high-stakes context of a terrorist attack. Little Brother is a brilliant novel with a bold argument: hackers and gamers might just be our country's best hope for the future.

We've been playing games since humanity had civilization - there is something primal about our desire and our ability to play games. It's so deep-seated that it can bypass latter-day cultural norms and biases.

Every game we play activates our brain, and it's the same brain we have in real life as we have in the game.

The single biggest misconception about games is that they're an escapist waste of time.

Gamers always believe that an epic win is possible and that it's always worth trying and trying now.

When we know our strengths, we're more likely to use them.

I don't want to be a saint; I just want to help people.