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“Maybe his big build isn't a linebacker's after all; maybe it's a librarian's.” — Robin Sloan Engineering Copy Share Image
“Thank you, Teobaldo. You are my greatest friend. This has been the key to everything.” — Robin Sloan Friend Copy Share Image
All the secrets of the world worth knowing are hiding in plain site. — Robin Sloan Hiding 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
“He paused, then added, "Some of them are working very hard indeed." "What are they doing?" "My boy!" he said, eyebrows raised.… — Robin Sloan 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
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
“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
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 Crazy 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
“Here’s a thing I believe about people my age: we are the children of Hogwarts, and more than anything, we just want… — Robin Sloan Children Copy Share Image
It turns out you can train a neural network on a big body of text. It can be Wikipedia; it can be… — Robin Sloan Beautiful Copy Share Image
So I switch to my MacBook and make my rounds: news sites, blogs, tweets. I scroll back to find the conversations that… — Robin Sloan Conversation Copy Share Image
“But when people are past a certain age, you sort if stop asking them why they do things. It feels dangerous. What… — Robin Sloan Ageing Copy Share Image
“So I guess you could say Neel owes me a few favors, except that so many favors have passed between us now… — Robin Sloan Favors Copy Share Image
“The shelves were packed close together, and it felt like I was standing at the border of a forest--not a friendly Californian… — Robin Sloan Border Forest Copy Share Image
“The space is appropriately shoe-boxy and all the shelves are there. I've set them up with a coordinate system, so my program… — Robin Sloan Aisle Copy Share Image
For me, writing in public is actually super energizing and so much fun. Especially when writing can typically be really painful and… — Robin Sloan Fun Copy Share Image
“You know, old books are a big problem for us. Old knowledge in general. We call it OK. Old knowledge, OK. Did… — Robin Sloan Big problem 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
“Neel cuts in: "Where'd you grow up?" "Palo Alto," she says. From there to Stanford to Google: for a girl obsessed with… — Robin Sloan Best friend Copy Share Image
“But it will make mistakes," she says. "Hadoop will probably get us from a hundred thousand buildings down to, like, five thousand."… — Robin Sloan Automation 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 Built Copy Share Image
“I did not know people your age still read books,' Penumbra says. He raises an eyebrow. 'I was under the impression they… — Robin Sloan Books 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 Astronomy Copy Share Image
“On both sides, they've failed us...of course, we know about the industrialists. Their corn syrup and cheese product. Their factory farms ringed… — Robin Sloan Food 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
“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
If a shop has a neon Superman logo in the window, I will enter. If it has a neon Superman logo in… — Robin Sloan Dragon Copy Share Image
“It is very quiet. I set my chin into my palm and count my friends and wonder what else is hiding in… — Robin Sloan Friendship Copy Share Image
“History hinges on such small things. A difference of thirty degrees, and this story would end here.” — Robin Sloan History 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 Ice cube Copy Share Image
I think that some of the archetypes and works of science fiction that have pierced pop culture and stayed there are the… — Robin Sloan Culture 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
