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Quotes About Exploration

You had to be careful whenever you entered a new zone or sector. You had to be prepared. But like I said, I didn't have that problem. I was stuck at school.
~ Ernest Cline
As we sprinted from the Candle Room to the Music Club to the Boudoir to the Virtual Video Room, a song called "Interactive" played on a continuous loop in every room. Aech explained that this was a song Prince wrote exclusively for a Myst-like videogame he released with the same title.
~ Ernest Cline
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.
~ Ernest Cline
Besides, what if BSG and Firefly took place in the same universe? You ever consider that?" I
~ Ernest Cline
wondering what challenges awaited me inside
~ Ernest Cline
Salir es algo que está muy sobrevalorado. Almanaque de Anorak, capítulo 17, versículo 32
~ Ernest Cline
My God, it's full of stars," I heard a disembodied voice say. I recognized it as a sound bite from the film 2010.
~ Ernest Cline
I made a big entrance when I arrived in my flying DeLorean, which I'd obtained by completing a Back to the Future quest on the planet Zemeckis.
~ Ernest Cline
Getting outside is highly overrated.
~ Ernest Cline
GSS—13th Floor—Vault #42–8675309.
~ Ernest Cline
Salir es algo que está muy sobrevalorado. Almanaque de Anorak
~ Ernest Cline
Og led us through the mansion's lavish front entrance. The lights were off inside, but instead of turning them on, Morrow took an honest-to-God torch off the wall and used it to illuminate our way.
~ Ernest Cline
TOS, TNG, DS9.
~ Ernest Cline
Then she snapped her fingers and we were standing on Europa, discussing the possibility of extraterrestrial life beneath the moon's icy crust. I
~ Ernest Cline
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.
~ Ernest Cline
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.
~ Ernest Cline
Going outside is highly overrated.
~ Ernest Cline
She grinned. "Don't you want to build a huge interstellar spaceship, load it full of videogames, junk food, and comfy couches, and then get the hell out of here?" "I'm up for that, too," I said. "if it means I get to spend the rest of my life with you.
~ Ernest Cline
Before we take to the sea, we walk on land. . . Before we create, we must understand. . .
~ Ernest Hemingway
For a true writer each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always try…
~ Ernest Hemingway
I suppose you know what you're about." "Oh no, I don't," she answered. "I never know what I'm about. If you always do, you miss so much—you get into a solemn habit of trying nothing till you're sure.
~ Ernest Poole
Our drifting home had no rudder to guide it, no sail to give it speed. We
~ Ernest Shackleton
We had two tins of Virol, which we were keeping for an emergency; but, finding ourselves in need of an oil-lamp to eke out our supply of candles, we emptied one of the tins in the manner that most appealed to us, and fitted it with a wick made by shredding a bit of canvas. When
~ Ernest Shackleton
containing anemometer, barograph, and thermograph, rigged over the stern. The geologist was making the best of what to him was an unhappy situation; but was not
~ Ernest Shackleton