Ernest Cline Quotes

I could barely believe myself. IOI had actually tried to kill me. To prevent me from winning a videogame contest. It was insane.

It suddenly occurred to me just how absurd this scene was: a guy wearing a suit of armor, standing next to an undead king, both hunched over the controls of a classic arcade game. It was the sort of s...

Few young men know the Oedipal torment of growing up with an insanely hot, perpetually single mom.

His paternal tone irked me no end, and that helped to steel my resolve. I couldn't sell out the the Sixers.

Instead, he picked up his bass guitar, and, in what seemed like an odd coincidence, he began to play a solo version of One of These Days while staring up at the stars projected on the dome over our he...

G.I. Joe—I knew them all. Because knowing is half the battle.

Richard K. Morgan. Stephen King. Orson Scott Card. Terry Pratchett. Terry Brooks. Bester, Bradbury, Haldeman, Heinlein, Tolkien, Vance, Gibson, Gaiman, Sterling, Moorcock, Scalzi, Zelazny. I

I don't know, maybe your experience differed from mine. For me, growing up as a human being on the planet Earth in the twenty-first century was a real kick in the teeth. Existentially speaking

Since their invention about half a century ago, video games have come to play a vital role in modern human civilization. I think this is because we modern humans were never designed to live like we do...

That story you heard? About how we were all created by a super-powerful dude named God who lives up in the sky? Total bullshit. The whole God thing is actually an ancient fairy tale that people have b...

My mom once told me that my dad had given me an alliterative name, Wade Watts, because he thought it sounded like the secret identity of a superhero. Like Peter Parker or Clark Kent.

همون موقع بود که به واقعیتی ترسناک و زجر آور پی بردم و فهمیدم که دنیای واقعیه تنها جاییه که میشه خوشبختی واقعی رو در اون پیدا کرد.چون فقط واقعیت ، واقعیه

My father looked as if I'd just gutted him - but it was mingled with a twisted sense of satisfaction. It felt good to hurt his feelings.

MTFBWYA, Parzival

No tenía sentido negar la evidencia.

But we also figured out how to do science, which helped us develop technology.

A gifted human player could always triumph over the game’s AI, because software couldn’t improvise. It could either react randomly, or in a limited number of predetermined ways, based on a finite numb...

You’ll be flying a cargo plane full of rubber dog shit out of Hong Kong.

These days, most gunters referred to them as the Sux0rz. (Because they sucked.)

If we don’t end war, war will end us. —H. G. Wells