Robin Sloan Quotes

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.

Robin Sloan

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TodayGreatBestBrokenShortMedia

Self-righteousness has killed more people than smoking.

John McCarthy

PeopleSmokingMoreThanMore People

I love short stories, but I've never had the impulse to write one. Same for ghost stories.

John Lanchester

LoveShortNeverWriteSameGhost

There was a time when all dark-skinned people were called Ethiopians, for the Greeks referred to Africa as, 'The Land Of The Burnt-Face People.'

John Henrik Clarke

TimePeopleAfricaLandGreeksWere

People who look down on other people don't end up being looked up to.

Robert Half

PeopleEndLookDownUpBeing

When you're used to being at a point where you're deadlifting close to 600 pounds, getting to be 5.5 percent body fat and seeing veins in places you shouldn't see them, it kind of skews your understanding of what is normal and OK.

Matt McGorry

FatUnderstandingYouSeeingBody

I am a loyal American, and I love my country.

Steven Hatfill

LovePatriotismI AmAmericanLoyal

You know, once you have been through a certain amount of things in life, you definitely grow more comfortable with yourself.

Steve Nash

LifeYourselfGrowYouKnowMore

I train a lot of celebrities, including a lot of women who work for Victoria's Secret as Angels.

Mary Helen Bowers

WorkWomenTrainAngelsSecretWho

The first thing to be said about 'Prague Winter,' former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright's new book, is that she very wisely chooses to confront early on in it her apparent surprise at learning late in life that she was born Jewish.

Michael Korda

LifeWinterLearningBookSurprise

When anything is wrong with your child, your first instinct is to make it better.

Didi Conn

ChildBetterWrongFirstAnything

My father is a very hardworking guy, and that's his focus in life, so I got a lot of the paternal attention that a boy wants and needs from my grandfather.

Donald Trump, Jr.

LifeFatherFocusAttentionBoyGuy

I'm in a 'I can do whatever' phase. I'm taking this '106 & Park' opportunity into full force. I'm really focused on doing my best with it. This is my 'Fresh Prince' moment. I want to be the black Ryan Seacrest of film, TV, and more.

Bow Wow

OpportunityMomentBestBlackDoing

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