Twitter Quotes by Robin Sloan

8 Twitter quotes by Robin Sloan

Robin Sloan’s Twitter thoughts blend tech insight with literary flair. In eight short messages, he shares the kind of clever observations that spark curiosity about the digital world.

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There's just no escaping it: The half-life of media on the Internet is super short. Tweets flow and fade; pages that look…

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There's certainly satire written about techies, but it's so snarky and snide and doesn't treat him as a whole person. The people…

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The thinnest tendrils of dawn are creeping in from the east. People in New York are softly starting to tweet.

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Social systems have values - arguments baked into their design. For example, Twitter's core argument seems to be, 'Everything should be public,…

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A lot of folks focus on using Twitter as a marketing tool. They'll have a bump that says something like 'Tweet about…

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On the Twitter media team, we believe that tweets drive TV tune-in.

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Books are anchored. You return to books. You don't return to a tweet.

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We're looking at dozens, sometimes hundreds of things every day in articles, videos, and we never look at them again. Even if…

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“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…

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You can go as far back as fifth grade, and you will find me tinkering with media and computers, making things that are a…

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He has the strangest expression on his face- the emotional equivalent of 404 PAGE NOT FOUND.

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“Baking, by contrast, was solving the same problem over and over again, because every time, the solution was consumed. I mean, really: chewed and…

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“I tell him, and I write it down as I go. It makes me feel better, as if the weirdness is flowing out of…

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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…

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Imagination runs out. But it makes sense, right? We probably just imagine things based on what we already know, and we run out of…

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“My limbic system has grown accustomed to a certain (very low) level of human (female) contact. With her standing right next to me, her…

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“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,…

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“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…

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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…

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“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…

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Doing research for 'Penumbra,' I read quite a bit about the early history of printing, and the more I did, the more it sounded…

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“History hinges on such small things. A difference of thirty degrees, and this story would end here.”

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“It is very quiet. I set my chin into my palm and count my friends and wonder what else is hiding in plain sight.”

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