Quotes About Imagination

Philip K. Dick

I quickly lost track of time. I forgot that my avatar was sitting in Halliday's bedroom and that, in reality, I was sitting in my hideout, huddled near the electric heater, tapping at the empty air in front of me, entering commands on an imaginary keyboard. All of the intervening layers slipped away, and I lost myself in the game within the game. In

I'm not crazy about reality, but it's still the only place to get a decent meal.—Groucho Marx

The whole God thing is actually an ancient fairy tale that people have been telling one another for thousands of years. We made it all up. Like Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny.

Once we reached the edge of the Be-Free Forest, we entered Holden's Field—a large, flat, open field of rye, perched precariously on the edge of the Cliffs of Salinger, a place where I had completed several different book-report quests at several different grade levels. I had also played countless games of tag in this field, with other kids from around the world. Kids I had never met and would never meet in the real world, with usernames that they had probably changed long ago.

Unlike their real-world counterparts, most of the OASIS public school teachers seemed to genuinely enjoy their job

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 been telling one another for thousands of years. We made it all up. Like Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny.

Users could now teleport back and forth between their favorite fictional worlds. Middle Earth. Vulcan. Pern. Arrakis. Magrathea. Discworld, Mid-World, Riverworld, Ringworld. Worlds upon worlds.

Zum ersten Mal in meinem Leben konnte mir die OASIS gestohlen bleiben.

Welcome to the OASIS, Parzival!

Nejsem z reality zrovna na vÄ›tvi, ale je to poÃ…â"¢ád jediné místo, kde dostanete sluÅ¡né jídlo. (Groucho Marx)

heretofore made…." He continues reading

Christ! Haven't any of you rewatched The Matrix lately? Or Sword Art Online?

Bester, Bradbury, Haldeman, Heinlein, Tolkien, Vance, Gibson, Gaiman, Scalzi, Zelazny.

Neal Stephenson.

I stopped moving forward and the sound of hoofbeats also ceased, but not until a few seconds later. I turned around and saw the source of the sound. It wasn't a horse. It was a man banging two coconut halves together.

Also, don't touch anything, and if you can help it, try not to look at anything either—not for longer than a second or two. Otherwise you might trigger some educational minigame or side quest that you'll be forced to complete, and we'll have to go on without you. We don't have time to stop and play Blue's Clues.

Besides, what if BSG and Firefly took place in the same universe? You ever consider that?" I

Ernest Cline

OK, Arty," I said.

found myself gazing in wonderment at my surroundings. Even now, I couldn't help but be awed by the scope and detail of Tolkien's imagination. After almost a century, artists and storytellers and programmers were still drawing inspiration from his creation.

It looks just like Rivendell," Aech said, taking the words right out of my mouth.

Through sheer force of will and brainpower, he'd once again turned science fiction into science fact, without much regard for the long-term consequences.

Then she snapped her fingers and we were standing on Europa, discussing the possibility of extraterrestrial life beneath the moon's icy crust. I