Quotes About Halliday

Forty years ago, Constance Halliday set us on this road and created her squad of Sphinxes. It hasn't been exactly what any of us expected. But we have done our best, and we will make her proud. She challenged us to make justice our priority, and tomorrow, justice will be done.

Anorak" was a nickname Halliday had been given by a female British exchange student at his high school.

Cuando Halliday todavía dirigía la empresa, GSS había logrado que prevaleciera el derecho a no desvelar la identidad de los usuarios de Oasis tras un fallo histórico del Tribunal Supremo. Cuando

Halliday once said that he preferred to pretend the other Indiana Jones films, from Kingdom of the Crystal Skull onward, didn't exist. I tended to agree.)

Rush had been Halliday's favorite band, from his teens onward. He'd once revealed in an interview that he'd coded every single one of his videogames (including the OASIS) while listening exclusively to Rush albums. He often referred to Rush's three members—Neil Peart, Alex Lifeson, and Geddy Lee—as "the Holy Trinity" or "the Gods of the North.

WarGames had been one of Halliday's all-time favorite movies. Which was why I had watched it over three dozen times.

It wasn't a horse. It was a man banging two coconut halves together. Then I knew where I was. Inside the first scene of Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Another of Halliday's favorite films

Halliday had to keep all of his D&D stuff over at Og's house. Because his own parents thought D&D was satanic and forbid him from playing it.

the past decade or more. The term originated in the film The Philadelphia

Instead, I pulled out my cell and dialed the one person any independent, competent adult calls when a true crisis hits. Mommy.

Seated each afternoon in the darkened screening room, Halliday came to recognise the targeted numerals of the Academy leader as sigils preceding the dream state of a film.