Quotes by Robin Sloan

Robin Sloan

…I can’t stop squirming. If fidgets were Wikipedia edits, I would have completely revamped the entry on guilt by now, and translated it into five new languages.

Guilt

Language

Wikipedia

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

Book

Night

Use

A clerk and a ladder and warm golden light, and then: the right book exactly, at exactly the right time.

Book

Clerks

Light

After that, the book will fade, the way all books fade in your mind. But I hope you will remember this: A man walking fast down a dark lonely street. Quick steps and hard breathing, all wonder and need. A bell above a door and the tinkle it makes. A clerk and a ladder and warm golden light, and then: the right book exactly, at exactly the right time.

Book

Dark

Lonely

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

America

Defense

Google

But I kept at it with the help-wanted ads. My standards were sliding swiftly. At first I had insisted I would only work at a company with a mission I believed in. Then I thought maybe it would be fine as long as I was learning something new. After that I decided it just couldn’t be evil. Now I was carefully delineating my personal definition of evil.

Evil

Learning Something New

Long

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

Emotional

Expression

Pages

I loved The Chronicles of Narnia. I loved The Chronicles of Prydain. Basically, ‘Chronicles of’ – I was in!

Chronicles

Narnia

Imagination runs out. But it makes sense, right? We probably just imagine things based on what we already know, and we run out of analogies in the thirty-first century.

Analogies

Imagination

Running

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

Dragons

Dungeons

Reality

Follow The Behaviour University in order to get the greatest quotes from the greatest people of all time so that you can tap into your own greatness.

America

Analogies

Batteries

Book

Boys

Chronicles

Clerks

Crazy

Dark

Dawn

Defense

Doe

Dragons

Dungeons

Emotional

Evil

Expression

Eyebrows

Father

Favors

Figures

Fool

Girl

Google

Guilt

Imagination

Knowing

Language

Learning Something New

Library

Light

Lonely

Long

Loyalty

Mean

Media

Narnia

Nebula

New York

Night

Pages

People

Phones

Quilts

Reading

Reality

Running

Secret

Sleep

Spirit

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Quotes by Robin Sloan

Robin Sloan

…I can’t stop squirming. If fidgets were Wikipedia edits, I would have completely revamped the entry on guilt by now, and translated it into five new languages.

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

A clerk and a ladder and warm golden light, and then: the right book exactly, at exactly the right time.

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

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

I loved The Chronicles of Narnia. I loved The Chronicles of Prydain. Basically, ‘Chronicles of’ – I was in!

Imagination runs out. But it makes sense, right? We probably just imagine things based on what we already know, and we run out of analogies in the thirty-first century.

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

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