“Here’s a thing I believe about people my age: we are the children of Hogwarts, and more than anything, we just want… — Robin Sloan Children Copy Share Image
“I can't just sit at my desk and let this web of weirdness spin around me. (That describes a lot of jobs,… — Robin Sloan Weirdness Copy Share Image
“Immortality in a book-lined catacomb down beneath the surface of the earth, or death up here, with all this? I'll take death… — Robin Sloan Beneath the surface Copy Share Image
“She's scrolling fast through my code, which is a little embarrassing, because my code is full of comments like 'Hell, yeah!' and… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
When you've biked only on quiet cul-de-sacs and college campuses, the idea of riding in the city, right up there alongside the… — Robin Sloan Absurd Copy Share Image
Without science fiction, without the influence these books have had on me over the years, I'm not sure I would care much… — Robin Sloan Book Copy Share Image
“Penumbra [...] produces another e-reader - it's a Nook. Then another one, a Sony. Another one, marked KOBO. Really? Who has a Kobo?” — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
Print books have an amazing superpower because they don't disappear when you're done with them. Books on the shelf remind you that… — Robin Sloan Amazing Copy Share Image
“I felt the disorientation of a generous offer that in no way lines up with anything you want to do: like a… — Robin Sloan Disorientation Copy Share Image
“To be honest, my life has exhibited many strange and sometimes troubling characteristics, but shortness is not one of them. It feels… — Robin Sloan Humour Copy Share Image
“[...] We keep a record for every member, and for every customer who might yet become a member, in order to track… — Robin Sloan Books Copy Share Image
It turns out you can train a neural network on a big body of text. It can be Wikipedia; it can be… — Robin Sloan Beautiful Copy Share Image
So I switch to my MacBook and make my rounds: news sites, blogs, tweets. I scroll back to find the conversations that… — Robin Sloan Conversation Copy Share Image
“Maybe I'll just go ahead and buy her the Tufte book. I'll bring it wrapped in brown paper. Wait- is that weird?… — Robin Sloan Book Copy Share Image
A lot of folks focus on using Twitter as a marketing tool. They'll have a bump that says something like 'Tweet about… — Robin Sloan Focus Copy Share Image
'Parable of the Sower' is capital-I Important. Put it on the literary fiction shelf. Put it on the Holy Crap fiction shelf.… — Robin Sloan 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
“Or what if he's weeping to himself in a lonely apartment somewhere, where his family never visits him because Grandpa Penumbra is… — Robin Sloan Books Copy Share Image
“my great weakness: if a task was even mildly challenging, any sense of injustice drained away and I simply worked quietly until… — Robin Sloan Justice Copy Share Image
I liked the sort of YA classics. I loved 'The Chronicles of Narnia.' I loved 'The Chronicles of Prydain' by Lloyd Alexander,… — Robin Sloan Amazing Copy Share Image
“Well, you know our saying: It's not over until you hold the book's ashes in your hands, weeping at the years you've… — Robin Sloan Ashes 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 Copy Share Image
If a shop has a neon Superman logo in the window, I will enter. If it has a neon Superman logo in… — Robin Sloan Dragon Copy Share Image
“I know I have strong opinions about everything - I can’t help it, I do - but this one’s the strongest. I… — Robin Sloan Inspirational Copy Share Image
When every single piece of media you consume is time-shifted, does that mean it's actually you that's time-shifted? — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
“It is very quiet. I set my chin into my palm and count my friends and wonder what else is hiding in… — Robin Sloan Friendship Copy Share Image
“History hinges on such small things. A difference of thirty degrees, and this story would end here.” — Robin Sloan History Copy Share Image
I loved The Chronicles of Narnia. I loved The Chronicles of Prydain. Basically, 'Chronicles of' - I was in! — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
“Rosemary, why do you love books so much?" (...) "Well, actually, I love books because books are my best friends.” — Robin Sloan Best friend Copy Share Image
What is a game like 'No Man's Sky,' really? A set of symbols that specify a world but do not themselves constitute… — Robin Sloan Attention 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
I feel a little whirl of dislocation -- the trademark sensation of the world being more closely knit together than you expected — Robin Sloan Dislocation Copy Share Image
“I sip something called the Blue Screen of Death, which is in fact neon-blue, with a bright LED winking inside one of… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
'Minecraft' is a game about creation, yes. But it is just as much a game about secret knowledge. — Robin Sloan 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 Copy Share Image
I think that some of the archetypes and works of science fiction that have pierced pop culture and stayed there are the… — Robin Sloan Culture Copy Share Image
When you do something a little bit extreme or weird, it helps make it more interesting and more amenable to being written… — Robin Sloan Being Copy Share Image
There is no immortality that is not built on friendship and work done with care. All the secrets in the world worth… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
He asked Rosemary, why do you love books so much? And I said, Well, I don't know I suppose I love them… — Robin Sloan Book Copy Share Image
“Kat is talking to someone else now, a slender brown-skinned boy who's joined the line just behind her. He's dressed like a… — Robin Sloan Artificial intelligence Copy Share Image
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