Top 33 Robin Sloan Quotes

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Good writing is really meaningful, and it's one of the

Good writing is really meaningful, and it’s one of the – it’s still one of the best tools we have to get and capture people’s attention.
Robin Sloan
What is a game like ‘No Man’s Sky,’ really? A set of symbols that specify a world but do not themselves constitute it. A rich grammar that’s inert without the trigger of human attention.
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When you’ve biked only on quiet cul-de-sacs and college campuses, the idea of riding in the city, right up there alongside the cars, seems, frankly, pretty absurd.
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For me, writing in public is actually super energizing and so much fun. Especially when writing can typically be really painful and certainly hard, and often, you’re staring at the page and thinking, like, ‘Uh, is this any good? What am I doing?’
Robin Sloan
Print books have an amazing superpower because they don’t disappear when you’re done with them. Books on the shelf remind you that they exist.
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In the case of ‘Fish,’ I did the writing, design, and code all at the same time, so the form and the content were fused together. I’d change some words, get an idea, change some code, see if it worked, change more words, and so on.
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Whether it’s ‘Fish’ or ‘Annabel Scheme’ or ‘The Truth About the East Wind,’ I often find myself crafting custom containers to hold the kind of content I want to create.
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‘Minecraft’ is a game about creation, yes. But it is just as much a game about secret knowledge.
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My parents live in northern Michigan, and every year, in the summer, we visit them for a few weeks.
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I’ve never believed that Things Should Continue As They Are.
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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.’
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If you come from the Internet, as I do – I think of it as sort of my native country – there’s a lot of great things happening on the Internet, but one of the things, one of the feelings you just can’t escape is the sense that it’s really hard to keep people’s attention.
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If I look into my past, I was definitely into inventors. I was into stories of Edison and Tesla and da Vinci and all these guys making stuff in their garage.
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When you’re making a print book in 2012, I actually think the onus is on you – and on your publisher – to make something that’s worth buying in its physical edition.
Robin Sloan
On the Twitter media team, we believe that tweets drive TV tune-in.
Robin Sloan
The stimulation I get from my phone does not feel like the opposite of boredom to me. It actually feels like a different flavor of boredom… a twitchier flavor. And sometimes, it’s almost more irritation than stimulation. It’s an itch.
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This is what I think is fun about fiction – you get to use as much history as you want as scaffolding and then go beyond it and change it and mutate it.
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‘Gone Home’ is a game about exploration, and everything you’ll experience is tied intimately to the space of the spooky house around you. Your task is simple: Poke around.
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For so long, the model for writing has been, you sit in a room alone for a number of days or weeks or months or years and figure it out. But now, you don’t have to do that; you don’t have to be alone in the room anymore.
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Books are anchored. You return to books. You don’t return to a tweet.
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I love the web, but man, I look at my browser, and there are, like, twenty tabs up there, all jostling for space and time, all framed by a mosaic of other apps, other work, other entertainment… so even when I really am paying attention to something on the web, there’s this peripheral haze.
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I think that some of the archetypes and works of science fiction that have pierced pop culture and stayed there are the darker ones and the dystopias.
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We range widely, we readers of fiction, but I think we all need a home. Mine is science fiction. It’s my home shelf, my homeland, my home planet, my essential genre.
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‘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.
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In some ways I grew up in the public library in Troy, Michigan.
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When you’re writing for the Internet, you have the analytics, and you know that people are bailing every second. But various people kept reminding me that once people have bought a book, they’re in. You don’t have to be selling them on every page.
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You can’t think of technology as separate from all of our human drama anymore.
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Selling books is hard to engineer.
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If a shop has a neon Superman logo in the window, I will enter. If it has a neon Superman logo in the window, a Bat-symbol next to it, and a dragon under the eaves, I am already inside.
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There’s just no escaping it: The half-life of media on the Internet is super short. Tweets flow and fade; pages that look great today will be gone or, at best, riddled with broken links and outmoded code in five years, tops.
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I got a bike – a fixed-gear with bright blue wheels, custom-made to my specifications. I am a San Francisco techno-hipster, so this selection was a bit of a self-caricature. But sometimes the predictable thing turns out to be the best thing, too, and you can’t let that stop you.
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It turns out you can train a neural network on a big bo

It turns out you can train a neural network on a big body of text. It can be Wikipedia; it can be all the works of Charles Dickens; it could be all of the Internet. They can use grammar and put words together in interesting and convincing ways – and, I think, unexpected and beautiful ways.
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I am comfortable combining the old and the new.
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