Robin Sloan Quotes

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• America pays defense contractors to build aircraft carriers. Google pays brilliant programmers to do whatever the hell they want.
• Walking the stacks in a library, dragging your fingers across the spines -- it's hard not to feel the presence of sleeping spirits.
• ...I can’t stop squirming. If fidgets were Wikipedia edits, I would have completely revamped the entry on guilt by now, and translated it into five…
• Kat bought a New York Times but couldn’t figure out how to operate it, so now she’s fiddling with her phone.
• But I kept at it with the help-wanted ads. My standards were sliding swiftly. At first I had insisted I would only work at a…
• I walk alone in the darkness and wonder how a person would begin to determine the circumference of the earth. I have no idea. I’d…
• If this sounds impressive to you, you’re over thirty.
• After that, the book will fade, the way all books fade in your mind. But I hope you will remember this: A man walking fast…
• There is no immortality that is not built on friendship and work done with care. All the secrets in the world worth knowing are hiding…
• You know, I'm really starting to think the whole world is just a patchwork quilt of crazy little cults, all with their own secret spaces,…
• Neel takes a sharp breath and I know exactly what it means. It means: I have waited my whole life to walk through a secret…
• Her home is the burrow of a bibliophile hobbit -- low-ceilinged, close-walled, and brimming over with books.
• Some of them are working very hard indeed. “What are they doing?” “My boy!” he said, eyebrows raised. As if nothing could be more obvious.…
• There is no immortality that is not built on friendship and work done with care. All the secrets in the world worth knowing are hiding…
• A clerk and a ladder and warm golden light, and then: the right book exactly, at exactly the right time.
• So I guess you could say Neel owes me a few favors, except that so many favors have passed between us now that they are…
• He has the strangest expression on his face- the emotional equivalent of 404 PAGE NOT FOUND.
• Your life must be an open city, with all sorts of ways to wander in.
• I'd sit at my kitchen table and start scanning help-wanted ads on my laptop, but then a browser tab would blink and I'd get distracted…
• This girl has the spark of life. This is my primary filter for new friends (girl- and otherwise) and the highest compliment I can pay.…

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