Ready Player One Quotes

“Only the meek get pinched. The bold survive.”
― Ernest Cline, Ready Player One

“Parzival 110,000 highscore”
― Ernest Cline, Ready Player One

“A medida que leía las palabras que habían legado a la humanidad, iba comprendiendo cuál era la situación. Mi situación. Nuestra situación. Lo que la mayoría de la gente llamaba «la condición humana».

Y no era nada bueno.”
― Ernest Cline, Ready Player One

“As soon as my log-in sequence completed, a window popped up on my display, informing me that today was an election day. Now that I was eighteen, I could vote, in both the OASIS elections and the elections for U.S. government officials. I didn’t bother with the latter, because I didn’t see the point. The once-great country into which I’d been born now resembled its former self in name only. It didn’t matter who was in charge. Those people were rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic and everyone knew it. Besides, now that everyone could vote from home, via the OASIS, the only people who could get elected were movie stars, reality TV personalities, or radical televangelists.”
― Ernest Cline, Ready Player One

“Soha senki nem kapja meg, amit akar, és ez gyönyörű.”
― Ernest Cline, Ready Player One

“Only the meek get pinched. The bold survive.”
― Ernest Cline, Ready Player One

“... you only know what I want you to know, you only see what I want you to see."...
Wade: " I don't care! I am in love with your mind, with the person you are. I couldn't care about the packaging.”
― Ernest Cline, Ready Player One

“L33t Haxorz Warezhaus,”
― Ernest Cline, Ready Player One

“As terrifying and painful as reality can be, it's also the only place where you can find true happiness.”
― Ernest Cline, Ready Player One

“A recluse. A pale-skinned pop culture–obsessed geek. An agoraphobic shut-in, with no real friends, family, or genuine human contact. I was just another sad, lost, lonely soul, wasting his life on a glorified videogame. But not in the OASIS. In there, I was the great Parzival. World-famous gunter and international celebrity. People asked for my autograph. I had a fan club. Several, actually. I was recognized everywhere I went (but only when I wanted to be). I was paid to endorse products. People admired and looked up to me. I got invited to the most exclusive parties. I went to all the hippest clubs and never had to wait in line. I was a pop-culture icon, a VR rock star. And, in gunter circles, I was a legend. Nay, a god.”
― Ernest Cline, Ready Player One

“In desperation, I’d tried to find a part-time after-school job, just to earn some walking-around money. I applied for dozens of tech support and programming jobs (mostly grunt construction work, coding parts of OASIS malls and office buildings), but it was completely hopeless. Millions of college-educated adults couldn’t get one of those jobs. The Great Recession was now entering its third decade, and unemployment was still at a record high. Even the fast-food joints in my neighborhood had a two-year waiting list for job applicants. So I remained stuck at school. 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, Ready Player One

“From then on, my computer monitored my vital signs and kept track of exactly how many calories I burned during the course of each day. If I didn’t meet my daily exercise requirements, the system prevented me from logging into my OASIS account. This meant that I couldn’t go to work, continue my quest, or, in effect, live my life. Once the lockout was engaged, you couldn’t disable it for two months. And the software was bound to my OASIS account, so I couldn’t just buy a new computer or go rent a booth in some public OASIS café. If I wanted to log in, I had no choice but to exercise first. This proved to be the only motivation I needed. The lockout software also monitored my dietary intake. Each day I was allowed to select meals from a preset menu of healthy, low-calorie foods. The software would order the food for me online and it would be delivered to my door. Since I never left my apartment, it was easy for the program to keep track of everything I ate. If I ordered additional food on my own, it would increase the amount of exercise I had to do each day, to offset my additional calorie intake. This was some sadistic software. But it worked. The pounds began to melt off, and after a few months, I was in near-perfect health. For the first time in my life I had a flat stomach, and muscles. I also had twice the energy, and I got sick a lot less frequently. When the two months ended and I was finally given the option to disable the fitness lockout, I decided to keep it in place. Now, exercising was a part of my daily ritual.”
― Ernest Cline, Ready Player One

“Once they got finished slapping you with pay deductions, late fees, and interest penalties, you wound up owing them more each month, instead of less. Once you made the mistake of getting yourself indentured, you would probably remain indentured for life. A lot of people didn’t seem to mind this, though. They thought of it as job security.”
― Ernest Cline, Ready Player One

“You’d be amazed how much research you can get done when you have no life whatsoever. Twelve hours a day, seven days a week, is a lot of study time.”
― Ernest Cline, Ready Player One

“It had become a self-imposed prison for humanity,” he wrote. “A pleasant place for the world to hide from its problems while human civilization slowly collapses, primarily due to neglect.”
― Ernest Cline, Ready Player One

“She made me laugh. She made me think. She changed the way I saw the world.”
― Ernest Cline, Ready Player One

“Our global civilization came at a huge cost. We needed a whole bunch of energy to build it, and we got that energy by burning fossil fuels, which came from dead plants and animals buried deep in the ground. We used up most of this fuel before you got here, and now it’s pretty much all gone. This means that we no longer have enough energy to keep our civilization running like it was before. So we’ve had to cut back. Big-time. We call this the Global Energy Crisis, and it’s been going on for a while now.”
― Ernest Cline, Ready Player One

“Now, I have a new quest. A far more important one.” “And that is?” “Revenge.”
― Ernest Cline, Ready Player One

“Man, I’m such a motormouth! A jabberjaw. A flibbertigibbet.”
― Ernest Cline, Ready Player One

“My mom once told me that my dad had given me an alliterative name, Wade Watts, because he thought it sounded like the secret identity of a superhero. Like Peter Parker or Clark Kent.”
― Ernest Cline, Ready Player One

“Not horses,” he replied, stepping away from his throne. “Birds.”
― Ernest Cline, Ready Player One

“Middle Earth. Vulcan. Pern. Arrakis. Magrathea. Discworld, Mid-World, Riverworld, Ringworld. Worlds upon worlds.”
― Ernest Cline, Ready Player One

“You know you’ve totally screwed up your life when your whole world turns to shit and the only person you have to talk to is your system agent software.”
― Ernest Cline, Ready Player One

“I was too weird, even for the weirdos. And girls? Talking to girls was out of the question. To me, they were like some exotic alien species, both beautiful and terrifying.”
― Ernest Cline, Ready Player One

“Inside were long rows of blue teleportation booths. Their shape and color always reminded me of Doctor Who’s TARDIS.”
― Ernest Cline, Ready Player One

“I don’t know, maybe your experience differed from mine. For me, growing up as a human being on the planet Earth in the twenty-first century was a real kick in the teeth. Existentially speaking.”
― Ernest Cline, Ready Player One

“You and the other Sux0rz can all go fuck a duck.”
― Ernest Cline, Ready Player One

“Douglas Adams. Kurt Vonnegut. Neal Stephenson. Richard K. Morgan. Stephen King. Orson Scott Card. Terry Pratchett. Terry Brooks. Bester, Bradbury, Haldeman, Heinlein, Tolkien, Vance, Gibson, Gaiman, Sterling, Moorcock, Scalzi, Zelazny.”
― Ernest Cline, Ready Player One

“Gokouun o inorimasu,” Shoto said. “Do your best.”
― Ernest Cline, Ready Player One

“Goddammit!” he shouted. “Well, what am I supposed to do with it now?” “You could shove it up your ass and pretend you’re a corn dog.” COURTESY”
― Ernest Cline, Ready Player One