211 Quotes by Robin Sloan

It felt, also, like an empty spaceship, and, as a rule, you do not enter an empty spaceship without first knowing the fate of the crew.

Did I see faces? I did not see faces. The power outlet looked like a little dude, but power outlets always look like little dudes.

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

For a whole year in elementary school, when the class marched down to the school library every week, I would refuse to return my book. I would just check it out again and again. Every week. For a whole year. The object of my fourth-grade filibuster was 'D'Aulaires' Book of Greek Myths.'

Baking and coding involve using the same parts of your brain and a lot of the same skills, like being able to follow directions or create directions in a very systematic way.

Everyone's lives are sort of a succession, almost like handing the baton of your life off from one person to the next to the next to the next. And hopefully, that goes on for a long time, and the changes are healthy and interesting and not, like, spiraling into darkness.

I was always a computer kid, and I grew up with the Internet and always found it fascinating.

'Parable of the Sower' is capital-I Important. Put it on the literary fiction shelf. Put it on the Holy Crap fiction shelf. Put it on every shelf. This is one of the all-time great American novels.

You can really find yourself at sea when you're becoming an adult and suddenly have to feed yourself for the first time.