Doing research for 'Penumbra,' I read quite a bit about the early history of printing, and the more I did, the more… — Robin Sloan 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
When you're writing for the Internet, you have the analytics, and you know that people are bailing every second. But various people… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
“And then, on a sunny Friday morning, for three seconds, you can't search for anything. You can't check your email. You can't… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
When I'm using the Internet, I have 25 tabs open, and even if somebody sends me... something interesting, odds are I'll forget… — Robin Sloan 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 Copy Share Image
“The internet: always proving that you're not quite as special as you suspected.” — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
The vision of the Internet as a vast digital wasteland isn't correct. Everything is awesome, and we have more stuff to read… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
I think, personally - I don't know if other readers would agree - but reading 'Penumbra,' I detect an Internet writer or… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
I was always a computer kid, and I grew up with the Internet and always found it fascinating. — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
“Books: boring. Codes: awesome. These are the people who are running the internet.” — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
I love the web, but man, I look at my browser, and there are, like, twenty tabs up there, all jostling for… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
If you come from the Internet, as I do - I think of it as sort of my native country - there's… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
When I was 14, I spent a huge amount of time on the Internet, but not the Internet we know today. It… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
“Kat gushes about Google's projects, all revealed to her now. They are making a 3-D web browser. They are making a car… — Robin Sloan 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." "So we're… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
You can go as far back as fifth grade, and you will find me tinkering with media and computers, making things that are a… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
He has the strangest expression on his face- the emotional equivalent of 404 PAGE NOT FOUND. — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
“Baking, by contrast, was solving the same problem over and over again, because every time, the solution was consumed. I mean, really: chewed and… — 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 out of… — Robin Sloan 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 great today… — Robin Sloan 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 out of… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
“My limbic system has grown accustomed to a certain (very low) level of human (female) contact. With her standing right next to me, her… — Robin Sloan 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 forest, either,… — 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 library is… — Robin Sloan 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 shelf, my… — Robin Sloan 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 the outer… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
