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
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 close a tab or when you finish an article on the web, it's gone unless you go back into your… — Robin Sloan Find Copy Share Image
I think I'm one of those people that kind of thinks everybody's got an identity, and maybe that's the core of their… — Robin Sloan Change Copy Share Image
Neel takes a sharp breath and I know exactly what it means. It means: I have waited my whole life to walk… — Robin Sloan Bookshelves 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 Find 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
“They are developing a form of renewable energy that runs on hubris.” — Robin Sloan Google Copy Share Image
Your life must be an open city, with all sorts of ways to wander in. — Robin Sloan Cities 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
“The buzz about Google these days is that it's like America itself: still the biggest game in town, but inevitably and irrevocably… — Robin Sloan America Copy Share Image
“It's always new and astonishing when it's yours. Infatuation; sex; card tricks.” — Robin Sloan Card tricks Copy Share Image
“I always thought the key to immortality would be, like, tiny robots fixing things in your brain,” she says. “Not books.” — Robin Sloan Books Copy Share Image
Her home is the burrow of a bibliophile hobbit -- low-ceilinged, close-walled, and brimming over with books. — Robin Sloan Bibliophiles 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
“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
Books and technology are braided together and always have been. — Robin Sloan Always Copy Share Image
It turns out Dungeons & Dragons is much better on paper than it is in reality. — Robin Sloan Dragons Copy Share Image
'Minecraft' is a game about creation, yes. But it is just as much a game about secret knowledge. — Robin Sloan About Copy Share Image
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 Becoming an adult Copy Share Image