February 2012
1 post
January 2012
4 posts
“I fell in love with Jommy Cross—talk about pulp fiction déjà vu. Fifties Ace...”
– Pugetopolis, “Jommy Cross: A Biography”
“The conventional wisdom shared by many of today’s software engineers calls...”
– Donald E. Knuth, “Structured programming with go to statements”, Computing Surveys Vol. 6 No. 4, December 1974, p. 268
November 2011
1 post
October 2011
1 post
“Morrison has devoted the last two decades to an increasingly aggressive...”
– Scott Eric Kaufman, “From the Annals of Fauxprundity: THIS STORY IS ABOUT GRANT MORRISON WRITING THIS STORY!”
September 2011
1 post
“The local foods movement gets a bad bougie rap, but it’s not some crazy utopian...”
– Meghan McCarron, “Gluten-Free Istanbul”
August 2011
1 post
“These tools—“writing environments” or whatever else you want to call them—have...”
– Kevin Lipe, “Markdown is the new Word 5.1.”
N.b.: The opinion of Markdown expressed is not the opinion of Tired Robot and Tired Robot is not responsible for it. See above under ‘write differently’.
July 2011
1 post
June 2011
3 posts
“I think Dungeons & Dragons is a more accessible game than poker, because...”
– Dan Harmon
“It’s not true that to be “a woman writer means to suffer mercilessly and...”
– Sugar, “Write Like A Motherfucker”
May 2011
3 posts
“…the event which he represents will not happen, but if it were possible,...”
– Samuel Johnson, “Preface to Shakespeare”
“A good character of either sex must be shown performing purposeful actions (that...”
– Samuel R. Delany, “Symposium on ‘Women in Science Fiction’,” The Jewel-Hinged Jaw: Notes on the Language of Science Fiction
February 2011
2 posts
August 2010
3 posts
“So am I advocating scoffing at the word of your sensei or senpai? No. That’s not...”
– Gillian Russell, “Epistemic Viciousness in the Martial Arts”
“Just for a moment imagine Cotillard as the haunted team leader, DiCaprio …...”
– Richard Morgan on Inception
July 2010
6 posts
“Humanly speaking, to tempt someone means to offer him some inducement to defy...”
– W.H. Auden
“Robins can literally see magnetic fields with their right eye, and some people...”
– Ed Yong
“Systems of privilege are not eradicated by individual exceptions; if anything,...”
– Matthew Cheney
June 2010
11 posts
“The thesis could be defended that fantasy is significant insofar as it is impure...”
– Darko Suvin, The Metamorphoses of Science Fiction (London 1979), pp. 8-9
“We are also told that the Italian Navy is to come out and gain sea superiority...”
– Winston Churchill, June 18, 1940
“The ability to focus on a single task, relatively uninterrupted, is the strange...”
– Vaughan Bell
“Whenever I see older people fretting over the sexual proclivities of their...”
– Ta-Nehisi Coates
“They don’t want to live so much as to exist, preferably on a metaphysical...”
– Midori Yokokawa, editor of the fashion magazine Forest Girl (via Jezebel)
“He did not limit the fight against evil to the planet Earth, which, in some of...”
– Roberto Bolaño, Distant Star
May 2010
2 posts
“When I think I’m finished with an article, I set the print speed to Slow....”
– James Fallows, “Living with a computer,” July 1982
“I’m not from New York originally, but I moved here at 18, and whenever I go to...”
– Jill Filipovic, “On Hating Kids”
April 2010
5 posts
“If we take modernity as a social phenomenon, that is, as the experience of...”
– Kazys Varnelis, 1. time. history under atemporality (r1799)
“The extent to which we are are all of us usually in uniform brings to mind...”
– William Gibson
March 2010
21 posts
“Male and female humans are indeed the same species, but we are not a species...”
– Vaughan Bell
“The day before I left, my mother called sounding sleepy. “I’ve been...”
– Arundhati Roy, “Gandhi, but with guns”
“It’s convenient to forget that tribal people in Central India have a...”
– Arundhati Roy, “Gandhi, but with guns”
“EVERY SCENE MUST BE DRAMATIC. THAT MEANS: THE MAIN CHARACTER MUST HAVE A SIMPLE,...”
– David Mamet
“Rock music imported a lot of the ideas of musical authenticity from folk music,...”
– Alice Echols