Slinout Quotes & Sayings

I'm not afraid of having big banks. — Kevin Warsh

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 ... — Robin Sloan

The busier you are, the more interesting you are. The more you're off doing your thing and loving your job and your life, that's fascinating. — Claudia Christian

As the distance of migration increases," wrote the migration scholar Everett Lee, "the migrants become an increasingly superior group. — Isabel Wilkerson

I turned, feeling steady but somewhat dazed, and looked from the hand, now on my elbow, up the strong arm, around the curve of the bulky shoulder, and over the angular jaw and chin, until my eyes met the breath-hijacking sight of Sir Handsome McHotpants's piercing blue eyes. I cringed. — Penny Reid

The artist in our time has two chief responsibilities: (1) art; and (2) sedition. — Edward Abbey