“Southeastern Michigan is flat, almost concave; here was a world with a z-axis.” — Robin Sloan 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
“I didn't realize wizards were going to walk among us and we'd just call them Googlers.” — Robin Sloan Wizards Copy Share Image
“Hello, nice to meet you, I sell unreadable books to weird old people - want to get dinner?” — Robin Sloan Books 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 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
It's not like 'Print versus Digital - only one will survive.' We live in a hybrid world now, and I think the… — Robin Sloan Future Copy Share Image
Kat bought a New York Times but couldn’t figure out how to operate it, so now she’s fiddling with her phone. — Robin Sloan 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 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 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
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
“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
“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 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
After that, the book will fade, the way all books fade in your mind. But I hope you will remember this: A… — Robin Sloan Bells Copy Share Image
“The nature of immortality is a mystery,' he says, speaking so softly that we have to lean closer to hear.' But everything… — Robin Sloan Death Copy Share Image
Doing research for 'Penumbra,' I read quite a bit about the early history of printing, and the more I did, the more… — Robin Sloan Competition Copy Share Image
There's just no escaping it: The half-life of media on the Internet is super short. Tweets flow and fade; pages that look… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
Primes seem to me to be these unarbitrary, unique, fated things. It cannot be coincidence that the mythical numbers of storytelling like… — Robin Sloan Art Copy Share Image
“Neel cuts in: "Where'd you grow up?" "Palo Alto," she says. From there to Stanford to Google: for a girl obsessed with… — Robin Sloan Best friend 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
Your life must be an open city, with all sorts of ways to wander in. — Robin Sloan Cities Copy Share Image
“The menu charmed me, and as a result, my night, and my life, bent off on a different track.” — Robin Sloan Life Copy Share Image
“The suburban mind cannot comprehend the emergent complexity of a New York sidewalk.” — Robin Sloan Psychology Copy Share Image
I was always a computer kid, and I grew up with the Internet and always found it fascinating. — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
“we are the children of Hogwarts, and more than anything, we just want to be sorted.” — Robin Sloan Children 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
“My name is Clay Jannon and those were the days when I rarely touched paper.” — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
“Books: boring. Codes: awesome. These are the people who are running the internet.” — Robin Sloan Books Copy Share Image
“That's almost cute: Don't forget your ruler on your first day at cult! But where is 'down below'?” — Robin Sloan Cult Copy Share Image
“But, of course, the point of a programming language is that you don't just read it; you write it, too. You make… — Robin Sloan Programming 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
