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At Google, they eat lunch on graph paper. — Robin Sloan

The smell!" Penumbra repeats. "You know you are finished when people start talking about the smell. — Robin Sloan

Our friendship is a nebula. — Robin Sloan

I sit up straight and do the first thing a person is supposed to do in an emergency, which is send a text message. — Robin Sloan

I always thought the key to immortality would be, like, tiny robots fixing things in your brain," she says. "Not books. — Robin Sloan

Hadoop! I love the sound of it. Kat Potente, you and I will have a son, and we will name him Hadoop, and he will be a great warrior, a king! — Robin Sloan

Why do you love books so much? — Robin Sloan

We were looking at the sequence, not the shape. — Robin Sloan

This is no library. This is the Batcave. — Robin Sloan

Its a museum's job to keep things for posterity,"Tabitha sniffs. "We have a temperature-controlled storage unit full of Christmas sweaters. — Robin Sloan

We need James Bond with a library science degree. — Robin Sloan

Once told, stories take on a life of their own. — Robin Sloan

Our friendship is a nebula. Now — Robin Sloan

What do you seek in these shelves? — Robin Sloan

That's almost cute: Don't forget your ruler on your first day at cult! But where is 'down below'? — Robin Sloan

The way he says it, I can hear the capital letters. — Robin Sloan

This sounds very interesting to me, but mostly because this girl is very interesting to me. — Robin Sloan

If this sounds impressive to you, you're over thirty. — Robin Sloan

But when people are past a certain age, you sort of stop asking them why they do things. It feels dangerous. — Robin Sloan

At first I thought I had a crush on her, but then I realized she's an android. — Robin Sloan

But Ruby, my language of choice since NewBagel, was invented by a cheerful Japanese programmer, and it reads like friendly, accessible poetry. — Robin Sloan

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

The outer perimeter of the facility is like a highway; this must be where all the popular artifacts hang out. — Robin Sloan

America pays defense contractors to build aircraft carriers. Google pays brilliant programmers to do whatever the hell they want. — Robin Sloan

Maybe his big build isn't a linebacker's after all; maybe it's a librarian's. — Robin Sloan

He's like a storybook spirit, a little djinn or something, except instead of air or water his element is imagination. — Robin Sloan

Sometimes, you're stuck with a system too complicated to model completely. — Robin Sloan

There is no immortality that is not built on friendship and work done with care. — Robin Sloan

My name is Clay Jannon and those were the days when I rarely touched paper. — Robin Sloan

Immortality in a book-lined catacomb down beneath the surface of the earth, or death up here, with all this? I'll take death and a kebab. — Robin Sloan

Magic is not the only power in this world. — Robin Sloan

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

Go deeper. More iterations. Don't hold back. — Robin Sloan

It's not like we have the same brains as people a thousand years ago."
Wait: "Yes we do."
"We have the same hardware, but not the same software. — Robin Sloan

I sip something called the Blue Screen of Death, which is in fact neon-blue, with a bright LED winking inside one of the ice cubes. — Robin Sloan

The thinnest tendrils of dawn are creeping in from the east. People in New York are softly starting to tweet. — Robin Sloan

Of course, of course. Drugs, music, a new age dawning ... and you came for an old book. — Robin Sloan

None of this represented the glorious next stage of human evolution, but I was learning things. I was moving up. — Robin Sloan

I feel crazy, but in a good way. — Robin Sloan

Oh, I am very familiar with the internal monologue. — Robin Sloan

Walking the stacks in a library, dragging your fingers across the spines
it's hard not to feel the presence of sleeping spirits. — Robin Sloan

Penumbra's cult runs on egregious licensing fees — Robin Sloan

Our books still do not require batteries. But I am no fool. It is a slender advantage. — Robin Sloan

Hello, nice to meet you, I sell unreadable books to weird old people - want to get dinner? — Robin Sloan

I loved The Chronicles of Narnia. I loved The Chronicles of Prydain. Basically, 'Chronicles of' - I was in! — Robin Sloan

Thank you, Teobaldo. You are my greatest friend. This has been the key to everything. — Robin Sloan

he saw that Gerritszoon was a searcher, too. — Robin Sloan

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

I see it now. You cheated - would that be fair to say? And as a result, you have no idea what you have accomplished. — Robin Sloan

Neel's model might match the store's volume but never its density — Robin Sloan

Stuff that used to be hard just isn't hard anymore! — Robin Sloan

At best, the fellowship is founded on a false hope, and at worst, it's founded on a lie. — Robin Sloan

Girl Talk, produced by Andy Warhol. — Robin Sloan

All the secrets of the world worth knowing are hiding in plain sight. — Robin Sloan

But down below, Penumbra is shouting, "Lean, my boy! Lean!"
And wow, do I ever want this job. — Robin Sloan

They are developing a form of renewable energy that runs on hubris. — Robin Sloan

It turns out Dungeons & Dragons is much better on paper than it is in reality. — Robin Sloan

I feel a little whirl of dislocation
the trademark sensation of the world being more closely knit together than you expected — Robin Sloan

There are plenty of people who, you know - people who still like the smell of books. — Robin Sloan

People want things to be real. If you give them an excuse, they'll believe you. — Robin Sloan

Are there sexual fetishes that involve books? There must be. I try not to imagine how they might work. — Robin Sloan

This is Mat's secret weapon, his passport, his get-out-of-jail-free card: Mat makes things that are beautiful. — Robin Sloan

Your life must be an open city, with all sorts of ways to wander in. — Robin Sloan

Yes, everyone else is smart, everyone else is cool, everyone else is healthy and attractive - but she brought you. — Robin Sloan

It is very quiet. I set my chin into my palm and count my friends and wonder what else is hiding in plain sight. — Robin Sloan

But I think the writers had their turn," she says, "and now it's programmers who get to upgrade the human operating system. — Robin Sloan

I for one welcome our new android overlords. — Robin Sloan

Books: boring. Codes: awesome. These are the people who are running the internet. — Robin Sloan

Typographers are designers; designers are my people. — Robin Sloan

I will admit that I just want an excuse to put all my favorite people in a room together. — Robin Sloan

The whole economy suddenly felt like a game of musical chairs, and I was convinced I needed to grab a seat, any seat, as fast as I could. — Robin Sloan

Let me give you some advice: make friends with a millionaire when he's a friendless sixth-grader. — Robin Sloan

Don't forget your ruler on your first day of cult! — Robin Sloan

Rosemary, why do you love books so much?"
( ... )
"Well, actually, I love books because books are my best friends. — Robin Sloan

Ometimes discipline is the truest form of kindness. — Robin Sloan

The suburban mind cannot comprehend the emergent complexity of a New York sidewalk. — Robin Sloan

A fellowship of secret scholars spent five hundred years on this task. Now we're penciling it in for a Friday morning. — Robin Sloan

We all come to life and gather allies and build empires and die, all in a single moment. — Robin Sloan

I didn't realize wizards were going to walk among us and we'd just call them Googlers. — Robin Sloan

This cult seems like it might have been designed specifically to prey on bookish old people - Scientology for scholarly seniors. — Robin Sloan

The measure of a bookstore is not its receipts, but its friends," he says, "and here, we are rich indeed. — Robin Sloan

San Francisco is a good place for walks if your legs are strong. — Robin Sloan

Why do organizations need to mark everything with their insignia? It's like a dog peeing on every tree. Google is the same way. So was NewBagel. Using — Robin Sloan

(about Kindles) I have one and I use it most nights. I always imagine the books staring and whispering, Traitor! — Robin Sloan

I'm sorry, but I just don't believe in your ... religion, — Robin Sloan

To tell you the truth, I hate audiobooks.
But an audiobook is like a fizzy knit cap pulled down over your - — Robin Sloan

Its circumference was tiny, but he had a life, and he would not give it up. — Robin Sloan