Quotes from Ernest Cline

That was just one side of me. The side I chose to show you.

My ship stood out in the vast array of vessels, since it was the only giant robot.

an epic cross-over film about Dr. Emmett Brown and Dr. Buckaroo Banzai teaming up with Knight Industries to create a unique interdimensional time vehicle for the Ghostbusters, who must use it to save all ten known dimensions from a fourfold cross-rip that could tear apart the fabric of the space-time continuum.

home videogame consoles had already made most coin-op games obsolete. After the OASIS went online, they stopped making

I know the future is scary at times, sweetheart. But there's just no escaping it.

Parzival: Nope. You got parents? Art3mis: They died. The flu. So I was raised by my grandparents. You got parentage? Parzival: No. Mine are dead too. Art3mis: It kinda sucks, doesn't it? Not having your parents around. Parzival: Yeah. But a lot of people are worse off than me. Art3mis: I tell myself that all the time.

Like most gunters, I voted to reelect Cory Doctorow and Wil Wheaton

She did it to get the extra food vouchers from the government every month.

wondering what challenges awaited me inside

los cereales Cap'n Crunch.

Admittedly, all the time I'd had to devote to the game had shaved a full point off my grade average, and it had probably cost me my relationship with Ellen, too.

earned enough to keep from going hungry, which was more than a lot of my neighbors could say.

because I knew there was a good chance it was going to end up getting me killed. But at this point, I no longer cared.

La realidad no me entusiasma, pero sigue siendo el único lugar donde se come decentemente.

Oh-my-fucking-God!

Sorrento," I said, trying to hide the fear in my voice, "I want you and your bosses to know something. You're never going to find Halliday's egg. You know why? Because he was smarter than all of you put together. It doesn't matter how much money you have or who you try to blackmail. You're going to lose.

OK, Arty," I said.

Salir es algo que está muy sobrevalorado. Almanaque de Anorak, capítulo 17, versículo 32

as terrifying and painful as reality can be, it's also the only place where you can find true happiness. Because reality is real.

At the center of all that gear was the opening DJ, R2-D2, hard at work, using his various robotic arms to work the turntables.

IOI required its egg hunters, which it referred to as "oologists," to use their employee numbers as their OASIS avatar names. These numbers were all six digits in length, and they also began with the numeral "6," so everyone began calling them the Sixers. These days, most gunters referred to them as "the Sux0rz." (Because they sucked.)

come to see my rig for what it was: an elaborate contraption for deceiving my senses, to allow me to live in a world that didn't exist. Each component of my rig was a bar in the cell where I had willingly imprisoned myself.

I couldn't bear the idea that the girl with whom I was virtually smitten might actually be some middle-aged dude named Chuck, with back hair and male-pattern baldness.

Dancing games.