'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
“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
The vision of the Internet as a vast digital wasteland isn't correct. Everything is awesome, and we have more stuff to read… — Robin Sloan Dreams Copy Share Image
“The smell!" Penumbra repeats. "You know you are finished when people start talking about the smell.” — Robin Sloan Smell Copy Share Image
When you're making a print book in 2012, I actually think the onus is on you - and on your publisher -… — Robin Sloan Book 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
You can go as far back as fifth grade, and you will find me tinkering with media and computers, making things that… — Robin Sloan Computers Copy Share Image
This is what I think is fun about fiction - you get to use as much history as you want as scaffolding… — Robin Sloan Change 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
When MUDs appeared, that was an entirely novel experience, and often an addictive one. Long before Twitter or Snapchat, MUDs inspired the… — Robin Sloan Experience Copy Share Image
Social systems have values - arguments baked into their design. For example, Twitter's core argument seems to be, 'Everything should be public,… — Robin Sloan Communication 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
“Or we could try feeding it Slurry,” Jaina Mitra said, and Dr. Klamath nodded gamely. Would the Clement Street starter eat Slurry?… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
When you're writing for the Internet, you have the analytics, and you know that people are bailing every second. But various people… — Robin Sloan Book Copy Share Image
“Turning the pages of this encoded codex, I realize that the books I love most are like open cities, with all sorts… — Robin Sloan Books Copy Share Image
I love the web, but man, I look at my browser, and there are, like, twenty tabs up there, all jostling for… — Robin Sloan Attention Copy Share Image
“I feel a pang of pity for the logbook, its secrets are all plucked out in minutes by this whirlwind of light… — Robin Sloan Books Copy Share Image
“I told them I didn't have time for this bullshit, and if either of them wanted to ask a lady out, he… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
Imagination runs out. But it makes sense, right? We probably just imagine things based on what we already know, and we run… — Robin Sloan Analogies Copy Share Image
Good writing is really meaningful, and it's one of the - it's still one of the best tools we have to get… — Robin Sloan Attention Copy Share Image
A clerk and a ladder and warm golden light, and then: the right book exactly, at exactly the right time. — Robin Sloan Book Copy Share Image
America pays defense contractors to build aircraft carriers. Google pays brilliant programmers to do whatever the hell they want. — Robin Sloan Aircraft carriers Copy Share Image
(about Kindles) I have one and I use it most nights. I always imagine the books staring and whispering, Traitor! — Robin Sloan Book Copy Share Image
“Anyway, sorry,” Jad says to me quietly. “We’ll be fine,” I say. “People still like the smell of books.” — Robin Sloan Books Copy Share Image
“I’m really starting to think the whole world is just a patchwork quilt of crazy little cults, all with their own secret… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
“He paused, then added, "Some of them are working very hard indeed." "What are they doing?" "My boy!" he said, eyebrows raised.… — Robin Sloan Reading Copy Share Image
“It’s not like we have the same brains as people a thousand years ago.” Wait: “Yes we do.” “We have the same… — Robin Sloan Computers Copy Share Image
“Yes, everyone else is smart, everyone else is cool, everyone else is healthy and attractive - but she brought you.” — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
“I tell him, and I write it down as I go. It makes me feel better, as if the weirdness is flowing… — Robin Sloan Books Copy Share Image
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
We range widely, we readers of fiction, but I think we all need a home. Mine is science fiction. It's my home… — Robin Sloan Books Copy Share Image
“But when people are past a certain age, you sort of stop asking them why they do things. It feels dangerous.” — Robin Sloan Certain age Copy Share Image
“This girl has the spark of life. This is my primary filter for new friends (girl- and otherwise) and the highest compliment… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
... nothing lasts long. We all come to life and gather allies and build empires and die, all in a single moment… — Robin Sloan Allies Copy Share Image
“Some of them are working hard indeed." "What are they doing?" "My boy!" he said, eyebrows raised. As if nothing could be… — Robin Sloan Boys Copy Share Image
“yeast, which is a fungus, and lactobacillus, a bacteria. They eat flour—its sugars—and poop out acid—thus, sour—” — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
“But Ruby, my language of choice since NewBagel, was invented by a cheerful Japanese programmer, and it reads like friendly, accessible poetry.” — Robin Sloan Programming Copy Share Image
You know, I'm really starting to think the whole world is just a patchwork quilt of crazy little cults, all with their… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
“This is Mat's secret weapon, his passport, his get-out-of-jail-free card: Mat makes things that are beautiful.” — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
“They say Shakespeare invented the internal monologue." Oh, I am very familiar with the internal monologue.” — Robin Sloan Monologue Copy Share Image
