I was always a computer kid, and I grew up with the Internet and always found it fascinating. — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
“The suburban mind cannot comprehend the emergent complexity of a New York sidewalk.” — Robin Sloan Psychology Copy Share Image
“The menu charmed me, and as a result, my night, and my life, bent off on a different track.” — Robin Sloan Life Copy Share Image
“we are the children of Hogwarts, and more than anything, we just want to be sorted.” — Robin Sloan Children Copy Share Image
He has the strangest expression on his face- the emotional equivalent of 404 PAGE NOT FOUND. — Robin Sloan Emotional Copy Share Image
“They are developing a form of renewable energy that runs on hubris.” — Robin Sloan Climate Copy Share Image
Good writing is really meaningful, and it's one of the - it's still one of the best tools we have to get… — Robin Sloan Attention Copy Share Image
Imagination runs out. But it makes sense, right? We probably just imagine things based on what we already know, and we run… — Robin Sloan Analogies Copy Share Image
“I told them I didn't have time for this bullshit, and if either of them wanted to ask a lady out, he… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
I walk alone in the darkness and wonder how a person would begin to determine the circumference of the earth. I have… — Robin Sloan Circumference Copy Share Image
“There were murky glass vessels holding baby Xenomorphs (possibly they were pickles) and bright colorful boxes with labels in Arabic and Hebrew… — Robin Sloan Judaism Copy Share Image
“When I thought of archives-documents stored and studied-I though of poets, writers, politicians, scientists. But why shouldn't the archives of the eaters… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
“The measure of a bookstore is not its receipts, but its friends,” he says, “and here, we are rich indeed.” — Robin Sloan Bookstore Copy Share Image
I think one of the most exciting things about the whole digital side of publishing is that it eventually allows you to… — Robin Sloan Digital Copy Share Image
Doing research for 'Penumbra,' I read quite a bit about the early history of printing, and the more I did, the more… — Robin Sloan Competition Copy Share Image
There's just no escaping it: The half-life of media on the Internet is super short. Tweets flow and fade; pages that look… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
“The nature of immortality is a mystery,' he says, speaking so softly that we have to lean closer to hear.' But everything… — Robin Sloan Death Copy Share Image
If I am honest with myself, a not-insignificant fraction of my enjoyment of any episode of 'Game of Thrones' is delivered in… — Robin Sloan Enjoyment Copy Share Image
“Every day you learn something amazing," Kat says, "like there's a secret underground library in New York City" - she pauses and… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
“There had to be a scale somewhere—the scale of stars, the scale of far-off cosmic super-beings—upon which we ourselves, we humans with… — Robin Sloan Astronomy Copy Share Image
“The Con-U storage facility is the most amazing space I have ever seen. Keep in mind that I recently worked at a… — Robin Sloan Sistine chapel Copy Share Image
For so long, the model for writing has been, you sit in a room alone for a number of days or weeks… — Robin Sloan Alone Copy Share Image
“Hi there...Let me ask you a question...How would you find a needle in a haystack?" The first-grader pauses, pensive, tugging on the… — Robin Sloan Needle in a haystack Copy Share Image
“Have they all bought Kindles? I have one, and I use it most nights. I always imagine the books staring and whispering,… — Robin Sloan Books Copy Share Image
You can't think of technology as separate from all of our human drama anymore. — Robin Sloan Drama Copy Share Image
“I am really into the type of girl you can impress with a prototype.” — Robin Sloan Girl Copy Share Image
“Maybe his big build isn't a linebacker's after all; maybe it's a librarian's.” — Robin Sloan Engineering Copy Share Image
“I didn't realize wizards were going to walk among us and we'd just call them Googlers.” — Robin Sloan Wizards Copy Share Image
“Southeastern Michigan is flat, almost concave; here was a world with a z-axis.” — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
“He's like a storybook spirit, a little djinn or something, except instead of air or water his element is imagination.” — Robin Sloan Imagination Copy Share Image
Whether it's 'Fish' or 'Annabel Scheme' or 'The Truth About the East Wind,' I often find myself crafting custom containers to hold… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
...I can’t stop squirming. If fidgets were Wikipedia edits, I would have completely revamped the entry on guilt by now, and translated… — Robin Sloan Guilt Copy Share Image
