Robin Sloan Quotes
Robin Sloan Quotes
The nature of immortality is a mystery,' he says, speaking so softly that we have to lean closer to hear.' But everything I know of writing and reading tells me that this is true. I have felt it in these shelves and in others.
2084 America pays defense contractors to build aircraft carriers. Google pays brilliant programmers to do whatever the hell they want.
2622 Walking the stacks in a library, dragging your fingers across the spines - it's hard not to feel the presence of sleeping spirits.
3638 Books of silver; books of bone; and yet the strangest thing you see in all your years at Galvanic is a boy in a ski-mask, sitting in a basement, using a computer.
2647 Of course, of course. Drugs, music, a new age dawning … and you came for an old book.
2346 People want things to be real. If you give them an excuse, they'll believe you.
2379 So I guess you could say Neel owes me a few favors, except that so many favors have passed between us now that they are no longer distinguishable as individual acts, just a bright haze of loyalty. Our friendship is a nebula. (p.34)
2847 So many favors have passed between us now that they are no longer distinguishable as individual acts, just a bright haze of loyalty. Our friendship is a nebula.
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