Sloan Sabbith Quotes

Cops and schoolteachers," Sloan said with satisfaction. "A cop and schoolteacher bar. The teachers drink like fish. The cops hit on the schoolteachers. One big happy family. ~ John Sandford

It was a fungal party hellscape. ~ Robin Sloan

Only in cartoons and fairy tales and greeting cards do endings have glitter ~ Holly Goldberg Sloan

It takes sweat to water the money tree. Don't pick the fruit from your neighbor's tree. ~ Harmon Sloan

For most cosmologists, a supernatural God is an unnecessary hypothesis. For most Americans, He is an unassailable fact. The American belief machine apparently has a fail-safe component. Nothing shuts it down. ~ Gary Sloan

The only real reason to write professionally is that you love it enough. ~ Sloan Wilson

Generally places that are comfortable with excellence don't call themselves centers of excellence. Has anyone heard of a Princeton University Center of Excellence? Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center of Excellence? ~ Otis Webb Brawley

Stuff that used to be hard just isn't hard anymore! ~ Robin Sloan

Everyone else kept giving you two shit, thinking you were playing some stupid fucking game, but if they would've opened their eyes for one second longer, they would've seen her hiding in plain sight with you fighting all her demons for her. ~ Harper Sloan

I told them I didn't have time for this bullshit, and if either of them wanted to ask a lady out, he could do it by text message like a normal person. ~ Robin Sloan

The smell!" Penumbra repeats. "You know you are finished when people start talking about the smell. ~ Robin Sloan

[Could] motor cars could be produced [in a country like Germany] and sold in competition in the American market ... In my opinion it is impossible to reach the conclusion that competition from without can ever be any factor whatsoever? ~ Alfred P. Sloan

My bad brother. I won't apologize that it happened, hell fucking no, best breakfast I've ever had ~ Harper Sloan

Books: boring. Codes: awesome. These are the people who are running the internet. ~ Robin Sloan

I hate it. It looks like a stickup at 7-Eleven. Five guys standing there with their hands in the air. ~ Norm Sloan

The buzz about Google these days is that it's like America itself: still the biggest game in town, but inevitably and irrevocably on the decline. Both are superpowers with unmatched resources, but both are faced with fast-growing rivals, and both will eventually be eclipsed. For America, that rival is China. For Google, it's Facebook. (This is all from tech-gossip blogs, so take it with a grain of salt. They also say a startup called MonkeyMoney is going to be huge next year.) But here's the difference: staring down the inevitable, America pays defense contractors to build aircraft carriers. Google pays brilliant programmers to do whatever they want. ~ Robin Sloan

Sloan & Dex...

"You skipped puberty didn't you?"

Dex let out a wistful sigh. "It wasn't for me."

Sloane laughed as he carried Dex out of the room. "You're hopeless."

"I'm also nonrefundable."

"Surely there's a return policy."

"Forget it. You're way past the thirty-day refund period. You're stuck with me now. And before you ask, I'm also nontransferable and nonexchangeable. If you donate me to charity there's no tax write-off because technically that would be considered Human trafficking."

"Wow. You've got your bases covered."

"You bet. Should have paid more attention to the Dexter J. Daley boyfriend agreement."

Sloane dropped him onto the counter and stepped between his legs to pull him close. "I don't recall this boyfriend agreement."

"You might have been sleeping at the time, but sleep during the reading of the DJDBA is covered in the fine print. As long as you have a pulse, you're considered present and accounted for."

"Duly noted. ~ Charlie Cochet

Moffat's prose is fine: clear and steady, with just enough sweeping statements about destiny and dragons to keep things well inflated. The characters are appealing archetypes: Fernwen the scholarly dwarf is the everynerd, doing his best to live through the adventure. Telemach Half-Blood is the hero you wish you could be. He always has a plan, always has a solution, always has secret allies that he can call upon - pirates and sorcerers whose allegiance he earn with long-ago sacrifices. ~ Robin Sloan

What are we doing, Axel?"
…
"I don't know, Princess. I don't know. But, it feels way too fucking good to ignore. ~ Harper Sloan

But I think the writers had their turn," she says, "and now it's programmers who get to upgrade the human operating system. ~ Robin Sloan

Rise and shine, you horny little humpers! ~ Harper Sloan

It doesn't really matter. Here goes nothing. It will be interesting to see what happens. ~ Sloan Wilson

She said that I was highly gifted.
Are people lowly gifted?
Or medium gifted?
Or just gifted? It's possible that all labels are curses. Unless they're on cleaning products.
In my opinion, it's not really a great idea to see people as just one thing. ~ Holly Goldberg Sloan

You don't get out of a hole by covering the hole, you get out of the hole by climbing your way up. ~ Michael Sloan

(Fishing) is as boring as boring gets. And then when it's finally not boring and you have a fish on the line it turns into a crime scene with a wooden club and a crazy amount of hitting. ~ Holly Goldberg Sloan

he saw that Gerritszoon was a searcher, too. ~ Robin Sloan

Always follow your dreams. Never give up. If you have a thought in your mind write it down. If you have a desire in your heart to write, then write. Tell your story. Make a difference. Touch someone's heart. ~ S. Sloan

Not much has changed, my ass. Looks like his few inches weren't just in his height ~ Harper Sloan

I have come to believe that food is history of the deepest kind. Everything we eat tells a tale of ingenuity and creation, domination and injustice-and does so more vividly than any other artifact, any other medium. ~ Robin Sloan

The late Alfred P. Sloan, Ir., long-time executive of General Motors Corporation, had a fivepoint "secret of success." It was: 1. Get the facts. 2. Recognize the equities of all concerned. 3. Realize the necessity of doing a better job every day. 4. Keep an open mind. 5. Work hard. ~ Alfred P. Sloan

Seems like an odd thing to toast to when you just agreed to go off with a complete
stranger and play hide the sausage. ~ Harper Sloan

Eating 'Fresh Cuisine' foods daily, in a sensual way, is the key to good health and blissful living. ~ Amanda J. Sloan

Her home is the burrow of a bibliophile hobbit -– low-ceilinged, close-walled, and brimming over with books. ~ Robin Sloan

You and I are now the Romeo and Juliet of friendships. Only we're the Juliet and Juliet. ~ Holly Goldberg Sloan

The business of business is business. ~ Alfred P. Sloan