“The suburban mind cannot comprehend the emergent complexity of a New York sidewalk.” — Robin Sloan Psychology Copy Share Image
Our books still do not require batteries. But I am no fool. It is a slender advantage. — Robin Sloan Advantage Copy Share Image
Your life must be an open city, with all sorts of ways to wander in. — Robin Sloan Cities Copy Share Image
“feeding people is really freakin’ great. There’s nothing better.” — Robin Sloan Feeding 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 am really into the type of girl you can impress with a prototype.” — Robin Sloan Girl Copy Share Image
The thinnest tendrils of dawn are creeping in from the east. People in New York are softly starting to tweet. — Robin Sloan Dawn Copy Share Image
“The smell!" Penumbra repeats. "You know you are finished when people start talking about the smell.” — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
Her home is the burrow of a bibliophile hobbit -- low-ceilinged, close-walled, and brimming over with books. — Robin Sloan Bibliophile Copy Share Image
“That's what spies do, right? They walk to the bakery and buy a loaf of bread everyday - perfectly normal - until… — Robin Sloan Spies Copy Share Image
I saw the short stories people were doing on Kindle and really liked the idea of seeing something I'd written on that… — Robin Sloan People Copy Share Image
'Gone Home' is a game about exploration, and everything you'll experience is tied intimately to the space of the spooky house around… — Robin Sloan Experience 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 Forget Copy Share Image
“Hadoop! I love the sound of it. Kat Potente, you and I will have a son, and we will name him Hadoop,… — Robin Sloan Great warrior Copy Share Image
“Greatest among us are those who can deploy “my friend” to total strangers in a way that is not hollow, but somehow… — Robin Sloan First contact Copy Share Image
“I’ve set them up with a coordinate system, so my program can find aisle 3, shelf 13 all by itself. Simulated light… — Robin Sloan Aisle 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 Around the world Copy Share Image
“I'm going to put the moves on her,' he says gravely. 'Things might get weird.' He says it like a commando setting… — Robin Sloan Dating Copy Share Image
“Kat is sitting cross-legged on the floor in her underwear and red T-shirt, leaning in to her laptop. I'm on the lip… — Robin Sloan Kindle 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:… — Robin Sloan Baking Copy Share Image
When we talk about novels, we don't often talk about imagination. Why not? Does it seem too first grade? In reviews, you… — Robin Sloan Books 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
“Lately, even the Waybacklist borrowers seem to be missing. Have they Been seduced by some other book club on the other side… — Robin Sloan Book club Copy Share Image
“Moffat's prose is fine: clear and steady, with just enough sweeping statements about destiny and dragons to keep things well inflated. The… — Robin Sloan Writing 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
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
Walking the stacks in a library, dragging your fingers across the spines -- it's hard not to feel the presence of sleeping… — Robin Sloan Feels Copy Share Image
“A fellowship of secret scholars spent five hundred years on this task. Now we're penciling it in for a Friday morning.” — Robin Sloan Friday morning Copy Share Image
“...this is exactly the kind of store that makes you want to buy a book about a teenage wizard. This is the… — Robin Sloan Book Copy Share Image
“To tell you the truth, I hate audiobooks." But an audiobook is like a fizzy knit cap pulled down over your -” — Robin Sloan Truth Copy Share Image
“It felt, also, like an empty spaceship, and, as a rule, you do not enter an empty spaceship without first knowing the… — Robin Sloan Empty space 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 Books Copy Share Image
Are there sexual fetishes that involve books? There must be. I try not to imagine how they might work. — Robin Sloan Book Copy Share Image
If I look into my past, I was definitely into inventors. I was into stories of Edison and Tesla and da Vinci… — Robin Sloan Garage Copy Share Image
I sit up straight and do the first thing a person is supposed to do in an emergency, which is send a… — Robin Sloan Emergencies 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 Containers Copy Share Image
