You can really find yourself at sea when you're becoming an adult and suddenly have to feed yourself for the first time. — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
“I sip something called the Blue Screen of Death, which is in fact neon-blue, with a bright LED winking inside one of… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
'Minecraft' is a game about creation, yes. But it is just as much a game about secret knowledge. — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
There is no immortality that is not built on friendship and work done with care. All the secrets in the world worth… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
When you do something a little bit extreme or weird, it helps make it more interesting and more amenable to being written… — Robin Sloan Being Copy Share Image
“yeast, which is a fungus, and lactobacillus, a bacteria. They eat flour—its sugars—and poop out acid—thus, sour—” — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
... nothing lasts long. We all come to life and gather allies and build empires and die, all in a single moment… — Robin Sloan Allies Copy Share Image
“Some of them are working hard indeed." "What are they doing?" "My boy!" he said, eyebrows raised. As if nothing could be… — Robin Sloan Boys Copy Share Image
“She's wearing the same red and yellow BAM! T-shirt from before, which means (a) she slept in, (b) she owns several identical… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
“How was New York?' Ashley asks politely. I'm not sure how to respond. Something like: Well, the mustachioed master of the secret… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
I got a bike - a fixed-gear with bright blue wheels, custom-made to my specifications. I am a San Francisco techno-hipster, so… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
“I can't eat pizza. If we actually end up with a pizza, it's going to be your responsibility to consume it. Do… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
Prediction just means you saw where the world might be going: ho-hum. Influence, though - ah. Influence, direct and acknowledged, means you… — Robin Sloan Influence Copy Share Image
We're looking at dozens, sometimes hundreds of things every day in articles, videos, and we never look at them again. Even if… — Robin Sloan Day Copy Share Image
In the case of 'Fish,' I did the writing, design, and code all at the same time, so the form and the… — Robin Sloan Change Copy Share Image
“Then we will do two things," Penumbra says, nodding. "First, I will tell you just a little of our history. Then, to… — Robin Sloan Adventure Copy Share Image
“This girl has the spark of life. This is my primary filter for new friends (girl- and otherwise) and the highest compliment… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
“But when people are past a certain age, you sort of stop asking them why they do things. It feels dangerous.” — Robin Sloan Certain age Copy Share Image
“This is Mat's secret weapon, his passport, his get-out-of-jail-free card: Mat makes things that are beautiful.” — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
“They say Shakespeare invented the internal monologue." Oh, I am very familiar with the internal monologue.” — Robin Sloan Monologue Copy Share Image
You know, I'm really starting to think the whole world is just a patchwork quilt of crazy little cults, all with their… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
“But Ruby, my language of choice since NewBagel, was invented by a cheerful Japanese programmer, and it reads like friendly, accessible poetry.” — Robin Sloan Programming Copy Share Image
“Yes, everyone else is smart, everyone else is cool, everyone else is healthy and attractive - but she brought you.” — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
“It’s not like we have the same brains as people a thousand years ago.” Wait: “Yes we do.” “We have the same… — Robin Sloan Computers Copy Share Image
“He paused, then added, "Some of them are working very hard indeed." "What are they doing?" "My boy!" he said, eyebrows raised.… — Robin Sloan Reading Copy Share Image
“I tell him, and I write it down as I go. It makes me feel better, as if the weirdness is flowing… — Robin Sloan Books Copy Share Image
“I’m really starting to think the whole world is just a patchwork quilt of crazy little cults, all with their own secret… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
“Anyway, sorry,” Jad says to me quietly. “We’ll be fine,” I say. “People still like the smell of books.” — Robin Sloan Books Copy Share Image
Baking and coding involve using the same parts of your brain and a lot of the same skills, like being able to… — Robin Sloan Baking Copy Share Image
We range widely, we readers of fiction, but I think we all need a home. Mine is science fiction. It's my home… — Robin Sloan Books Copy Share Image
Print books have an amazing superpower because they don't disappear when you're done with them. Books on the shelf remind you that… — Robin Sloan Amazing Copy Share Image
“Penumbra [...] produces another e-reader - it's a Nook. Then another one, a Sony. Another one, marked KOBO. Really? Who has a Kobo?” — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
I liked the sort of YA classics. I loved 'The Chronicles of Narnia.' I loved 'The Chronicles of Prydain' by Lloyd Alexander,… — Robin Sloan Amazing Copy Share Image
“Well, you know our saying: It's not over until you hold the book's ashes in your hands, weeping at the years you've… — Robin Sloan Ashes Copy Share Image
“Or what if he's weeping to himself in a lonely apartment somewhere, where his family never visits him because Grandpa Penumbra is… — Robin Sloan Books Copy Share Image
“my great weakness: if a task was even mildly challenging, any sense of injustice drained away and I simply worked quietly until… — Robin Sloan Justice Copy Share Image
Let me give you some advice: make friends with a millionaire when he's a friendless sixth-grader. — Robin Sloan Advice Copy Share Image
When you've biked only on quiet cul-de-sacs and college campuses, the idea of riding in the city, right up there alongside the… — Robin Sloan Absurd Copy Share Image
“Immortality in a book-lined catacomb down beneath the surface of the earth, or death up here, with all this? I'll take death… — Robin Sloan Beneath the surface Copy Share Image
“She's scrolling fast through my code, which is a little embarrassing, because my code is full of comments like 'Hell, yeah!' and… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
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