{"author":"Robin Sloan","author_id":"Robin+Sloan","total_quotes":30,"quotes":[{"text":"All the secrets of the world worth knowing are hiding in plain sight.","author":"Robin Sloan","tags":["secrets"],"id":2283,"author_id":"Robin+Sloan"},{"text":"A fellowship of secret scholars spent five hundred years on this task. Now we're penciling it in for a Friday morning.","author":"Robin Sloan","tags":["five-hundred-years","penciling-it-in","scholars","secret"],"id":8172,"author_id":"Robin+Sloan"},{"text":"...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.","author":"Robin Sloan","tags":["guilt","metaphor","wikipedia"],"id":14713,"author_id":"Robin+Sloan"},{"text":"Have you ever played Maximum Happy Imagination?'Sounds like a Japanese game show.'Kat straightens her shoulders. 'Okay, we're going to play. To start, imagine the future. The good future. No nuclear bombs. Pretend you're a science fiction writer.'Okay: 'World government... No cancer... Hover-boards.'Go further. What's the good future after that?'Spaceships. Party on Mars.'Further.'Star Trek. Transporters. You can go anywhere.'Further.'I pause a moment, then realize: 'I can't.'Kat shakes her head. 'It's really hard. And that's, what, a thousand years? What comes after that? What could possibly come after that? 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.","author":"Robin Sloan","tags":["future-prediction","futurism","game","imagination","inspirational"],"id":29096,"author_id":"Robin+Sloan"},{"text":"It was tall, made of pale blue light, a creature with long arms and long legs and the shadow of a smile, and above it all, eyes that shone bluer still than its body. 'What do you seek in this place?' the shade asked plainly.","author":"Robin Sloan","tags":["blue","eyes","light","shade"],"id":62218,"author_id":"Robin+Sloan"},{"text":"Each big idea like that is an operating system upgrade,' she says, smiling. Comfortable territory. 'Writers are responsible for some of it. They say Shakespeare invented the internal monologue.'Oh, I am very familiar with the internal monologue.'But I think the writers had their turn,' she says, 'and now it's programmers who get to upgrade the human operating system.'I am definitely talking to a girl from Google. 'So what's the next upgrade?'It's already happening,' she says. 'There are all these things you can do, and it's like you're in more than one place at one time, and it's totally normal. I mean, look around.'I swivel my head, and I see what she wants me to see: dozens of people sitting at tiny tables, all learning into phones showing them places that don't exist and yet are somehow more interesting...","author":"Robin Sloan","tags":["google","skakespeare","writers"],"id":71393,"author_id":"Robin+Sloan"},{"text":"Its circumference was tiny, but he had a life, and he would not give it up.","author":"Robin Sloan","tags":["life","value"],"id":80019,"author_id":"Robin+Sloan"},{"text":"The Golden Horn of Griffo is finely wrought,' Zenodotus said, tracing his finger along the curve of Telemach's treasure. 'And the magic is in its making alone. Do you understand? There is no sorcery here...'“Magic is not the only power in this world,” the old mage said gently, handing the horn back to its royal owner. “Griffo made an instrument so perfect that even the dead must rise to hear its call. He made it with his hands, without spells or dragon-songs. I wish that I could do the same.","author":"Robin Sloan","tags":["books","magic"],"id":107593,"author_id":"Robin+Sloan"},{"text":"America pays defense contractors to build aircraft carriers. Google pays brilliant programmers to do whatever the hell they want.","author":"Robin Sloan","tags":["america","funny","google","society"],"id":119272,"author_id":"Robin+Sloan"},{"text":"I'm going to put the moves on her,' he says gravely. 'Things might get weird.' He says it like a commando setting up a midnight raid. Like: Sure, this is going to be extraordinarily dangerous, but don't worry. I've done it before.","author":"Robin Sloan","tags":["dating","funny","nerds"],"id":164408,"author_id":"Robin+Sloan"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":30,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}