Quotes from Ernest Cline

Astronaut Kjell Lindgren, for giving me a guided tour of NASA, for sharing his patriotism and enthusiasm with me, and for taking the cover of my first novel up in outer space. I want to be him when I grow up.

You know: "dogs and cats living together … mass hysteria!

My first thought was: Holy fucking shit.

This was not how I wanted to die. Not even close. And then my ex-girlfriend fell out of the sky.

Whenever I saw the sun, I reminded myself that I was looking at a star. One of over a hundred billion stars in our galaxy. A galaxy that was just one of billions of other galaxies in the observable universe. This helped me keep things in perspective.

Os asombraría saber todo lo que se puede investigar cuando uno no tiene vida propia

And I apparently take this as my cue to shove my foot even further into my mouth.

The sudden change in her eyes says it all. One second she loves me, and the next she loves me not.

I noticed that Halliday had added an old eight-track tape player to the cockpit control panel. There was also a rack of eight-track tapes mounted over my right shoulder. I grabbed one and slapped it into the deck. Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap by AC/DC began to blast out of the robot's internal and external speakers, so loud it made my chair vibrate.

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

Once it was verified, a tiny augmented reality display extended from the front of the headset and then locked into place in front of my left eye, like a monocle. Several paragraphs of text appeared, floating in the air in front of me, superimposed in the center of my vision:

tried to keep my cool. I tried to remain skeptical. I reminded myself that I was a man of science, even if I did usually get a C in it.

Jesus," Aech muttered, shaking her head. "If you're right…this is some extremely twisted shit we've gotten ourselves mixed up in, fam.

NASA dubbed this spacecraft the Envoy I, and it reached Europa on the 9th of July, 1976—the day humanity made its first direct contact with an alien intelligence.

I was devastated. I was still in love with her.

The moment I began searching for the egg, the future no longer seemed so bleak.

I RODE THE turbo elevator back up to the observation deck. The moment the elevator doors swished open and I stepped into the large domed room, the odor of burning cannabis filled my nose. The smell grew increasingly stronger the farther I ventured into the room, as did the familiar strains of Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon, punctuated by fits of only slightly suppressed laughter.

O ser humano é uma porcaria na maior parte do tempo. Os videogames são a única coisa que torna a vida suportável.

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Halliday had prepared a short video message, along with instructions that it be released to the world media at the time of his death.

Sentado sozinho no escuro, assistindo ao programa em meu laptop, sempre imaginava que eu vivia naquela casa quente e bem iluminada, e que aquelas pessoas sorridentes e compreensivas eram a minha família. Imaginava que não havia nada tão errado no mundo que não pudéssemos resolver até o final de um único episódio de meia hora (ou talvez em dois, se fosse algo muito sério).

I studied Monty Python. And not just Holy Grail, either. Every single one of their films, albums, and books, and every episode of the original BBC series. (Including those two "lost" episodes they did for German television.)

É preciso deixar um pouco mais difícil essa conquista, para que a vitória fácil demais não desmereça o preço.

Flight simulators give me vertigo. I prefer to throw down with my feet on the ground." She pointed a thumb at herself. "You put me at the controls of a giant battle mech, I will crush my enemies and see them driven before me." I grinned. "What about the lamentations of their women?" "Oh yeah," she said, chuckling. "Their women lamentate all over the place. That goes without saying, doesn't it?