I feel like I was hit by all of geek culture at once while I was growing up in the '70s and '80s. Saturday morning cartoons like 'Star Blazers' and 'Robotech.' Live action Japanese shows like 'Ultraman' and 'The Space Giants.' Ernest Cline More Quotes by Ernest Cline More Quotes From Ernest Cline Going outside is highly overrated. Ernest Cline overrated Video games paid for my house. What am I saying? Go ahead and keep playing! Ernest Cline video games house I created the OASIS because I never felt at home in the real world. I didn't know how to connect with the people there. Ernest Cline oasis real home Steven Spielberg making a Ready Player One movie is going to change the course of human history as pertains to how quickly virtual reality is adopted. He's going to shows the whole world the potential of VR, which is one of the reasons I think he's doing it. Once you have to compose for 360 degrees, and a movie is different every time you watch it depending on where you choose to look, it's like the dawn of a new era. Ernest Cline player reality thinking Being human totally sucks most of the time. Videogames are the only thing that make life bearable. Ernest Cline videogame bearable being-human You were born at a pretty crappy time in history. And it looks like things are only gonna get worse from here on out. Ernest Cline born looks I've heard Stephen King say that when you write a novel you end up revealing everything about yourself. Ernest Cline ends kings writing I was a painfully shy, awkward kid, with low self-esteem and almost no social skills. Online, I didn't have a problem talking to people or making friends. But in the real world. interacting with other people - especially kids my own age - made me a nervous wreck. I never knew how to act or what to say, and when I did work up the courage to speak, I always seemed to say the wrong thing. Ernest Cline real self-esteem kids No one in the world gets what they want and that is beautiful. Ernest Cline want beautiful world I have a thing for evil bald bad guys. The Kurgan is too sexy. Ernest Cline sexy guy evil Everybody has this fond association with the car from Back to the Future, but most people have never seen one. I've seen people drive off the berm trying to take pictures. It ends up being dangerous. Ernest Cline car trying people As we continued to talk, going through the motions of getting to know each other, I realized that we already did know each other, as well as any two people could. We’d known each other for years, in the most intimate way possible. We’d connected on a purely mental level. I understood her, trusted her, and loved her as a dear friend. None of that had changed, or could be changed by anything as inconsequential as her gender, or skin color, or sexual orientation. Ernest Cline skin-color two years You'd be amazed how much research you can get done when you have no life whatsoever. Ernest Cline humorous life funny Cops pull me over just to get a better look. They never give me a ticket, even if I'm speeding, but they will ask to take pictures. Ernest Cline tickets giving looks I think it's a bit silly to brand the Internet as the 'downfall of youth.' Ernest Cline youth silly thinking You’re evil, you know that?” I said. She grinned and shook her head. “Chaotic Neutral, sugar. Ernest Cline sugar evil said I felt like a kid standing in the world's greatest video arcade without any quarters, unable to do anything but walk around and watch the other kids play. Ernest Cline play watches kids I watched a lot of YouTube videos of cute geeky girls playing '80s cover tunes on ukuleles. Technically, this wasn't part of my research, but I had a serious cute-geeky-girls-playing-ukuleles fetish that I can neither explain nor defend. Ernest Cline ukulele girl cute Continue your quest by taking the test. Yes, but what test? What test was I supposed to take? The Kobayashi Maru? The Pepsi Challenge? Could the clue have been any more vague? Ernest Cline pepsi quests challenges It's so much better to hand over a finished book than having all these people waiting. Ernest Cline book hands people
