Figures Quote by Robin Sloan

“But it will make mistakes," she says. "Hadoop will probably get us from a hundred thousand buildings down to, like, five thousand." "So we're…

— Robin Sloan

You can go as far back as fifth grade, and you will find me tinkering with media and computers, making things that are a…

— Robin Sloan

He has the strangest expression on his face- the emotional equivalent of 404 PAGE NOT FOUND.

— Robin Sloan

“Baking, by contrast, was solving the same problem over and over again, because every time, the solution was consumed. I mean, really: chewed and…

— Robin Sloan

“I tell him, and I write it down as I go. It makes me feel better, as if the weirdness is flowing out of…

— Robin Sloan

There's just no escaping it: The half-life of media on the Internet is super short. Tweets flow and fade; pages that look great today…

— Robin Sloan

Imagination runs out. But it makes sense, right? We probably just imagine things based on what we already know, and we run out of…

— Robin Sloan

“My limbic system has grown accustomed to a certain (very low) level of human (female) contact. With her standing right next to me, her…

— Robin Sloan

“The shelves were packed close together, and it felt like I was standing at the border of a forest--not a friendly Californian forest, either,…

— Robin Sloan

“How was New York?' Ashley asks politely. I'm not sure how to respond. Something like: Well, the mustachioed master of the secret library is…

— Robin Sloan

We range widely, we readers of fiction, but I think we all need a home. Mine is science fiction. It's my home shelf, my…

— Robin Sloan

“Neel cuts in: "Where'd you grow up?" "Palo Alto," she says. From there to Stanford to Google: for a girl obsessed with the outer…

— Robin Sloan