“He’s dressed like a skater, so I assume he has a PhD in artificial intelligence.” — Robin Sloan Artificial intelligence Copy Share Image
“All the secrets of the world worth knowing are hiding in plain sight.” — Robin Sloan Hiding in plain sight Copy Share Image
“The internet: always proving that you're not quite as special as you suspected.” — Robin Sloan Individuality Copy Share Image
I think one of the most exciting things about the whole digital side of publishing is that it eventually allows you to… — Robin Sloan Digital Copy Share Image
“There is no immortality that is not built on friendship and worked on with care. All the secrets in the world worth… — Robin Sloan Death 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
“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
“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
“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
“...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
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
If I am honest with myself, a not-insignificant fraction of my enjoyment of any episode of 'Game of Thrones' is delivered in… — Robin Sloan Enjoyment Copy Share Image
For so long, the model for writing has been, you sit in a room alone for a number of days or weeks… — Robin Sloan Alone 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 Internet 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 Attention Copy Share Image
“She's wearing the same red and yellow BAM! T-shirt from before, which means (a) she slept in, (b) she owns several identical… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
I've never listened to an audiobook before, and I have to say it's a totally different experience. When you read a book,… — Robin Sloan Book 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
“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 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
“Each big idea like that is an operating system upgrade," she says, smiling. Comfortable territory. "Writers are responsible for some of it.… — Robin Sloan Big idea Copy Share Image
“This job has three requirements, each very strict. Do not agree to them lightly. Clerks in this store have followed these rules… — Robin Sloan Books 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
“Have they all bought Kindles? I have one, and I use it most nights. I always imagine the books staring and whispering,… — Robin Sloan Books 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
I'd sit at my kitchen table and start scanning help-wanted ads on my laptop, but then a browser tab would blink and… — Robin Sloan 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
You can't think of technology as separate from all of our human drama anymore. — Robin Sloan Drama Copy Share Image
“They are developing a form of renewable energy that runs on hubris.” — Robin Sloan Climate 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
