Robin Sloan Quotes
Top 87 wise famous quotes and sayings by Robin Sloan
Robin Sloan Famous Quotes & Sayings
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I sit up straight and do the first thing a person is supposed to do in an emergency, which is send a text message.
I always thought the key to immortality would be, like, tiny robots fixing things in your brain," she says. "Not books.
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!
Its a museum's job to keep things for posterity,"Tabitha sniffs. "We have a temperature-controlled storage unit full of Christmas sweaters.
But when people are past a certain age, you sort of stop asking them why they do things. It feels dangerous.
But Ruby, my language of choice since NewBagel, was invented by a cheerful Japanese programmer, and it reads like friendly, accessible poetry.
The outer perimeter of the facility is like a highway; this must be where all the popular artifacts hang out.
America pays defense contractors to build aircraft carriers. Google pays brilliant programmers to do whatever the hell they want.
He's like a storybook spirit, a little djinn or something, except instead of air or water his element is imagination.
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.
Penumbra [...] produces another e-reader - it's a Nook. Then another one, a Sony. Another one, marked KOBO. Really? Who has a Kobo?
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.
Wait: "Yes we do."
"We have the same hardware, but not the same software.
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.
The thinnest tendrils of dawn are creeping in from the east. People in New York are softly starting to tweet.
None of this represented the glorious next stage of human evolution, but I was learning things. I was moving up.
Walking the stacks in a library, dragging your fingers across the spines
it's hard not to feel the presence of sleeping spirits.
it's hard not to feel the presence of sleeping spirits.
I loved The Chronicles of Narnia. I loved The Chronicles of Prydain. Basically, 'Chronicles of' - I was in!
Kat bought a New York Times but couldn't figure out how to operate it, so now she's fiddling with her phone.
I see it now. You cheated - would that be fair to say? And as a result, you have no idea what you have accomplished.
I feel a little whirl of dislocation
the trademark sensation of the world being more closely knit together than you expected
the trademark sensation of the world being more closely knit together than you expected
Are there sexual fetishes that involve books? There must be. I try not to imagine how they might work.
This is Mat's secret weapon, his passport, his get-out-of-jail-free card: Mat makes things that are beautiful.
Yes, everyone else is smart, everyone else is cool, everyone else is healthy and attractive - but she brought you.
It is very quiet. I set my chin into my palm and count my friends and wonder what else is hiding in plain sight.
But I think the writers had their turn," she says, "and now it's programmers who get to upgrade the human operating system.
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.
Rosemary, why do you love books so much?"
( ... )
"Well, actually, I love books because books are my best friends.
( ... )
"Well, actually, I love books because books are my best friends.
A fellowship of secret scholars spent five hundred years on this task. Now we're penciling it in for a Friday morning.
This cult seems like it might have been designed specifically to prey on bookish old people - Scientology for scholarly seniors.
The measure of a bookstore is not its receipts, but its friends," he says, "and here, we are rich indeed.
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
(about Kindles) I have one and I use it most nights. I always imagine the books staring and whispering, Traitor!