Ready Player One Quotes

“Finally, I want to thank all of the writers, filmmakers, actors, artists, musicians, programmers, game designers, and geeks whose work I’ve paid tribute to in this story. These people have all entertained and enlightened me, and I hope that—like Halliday’s hunt—this book will inspire others to seek out their creations.”
― Ernest Cline, Ready Player One

“At this school, the only real weapons were words, so I'd become skilled at wielding them.”
― Ernest Cline, Ready Player One

“I never wanted to return to the real world. Because the real world sucked. I”
― Ernest Cline, Ready Player One

“In those days, if you wanted to escape to another world, you had to create it yourself, using your brain, some paper, pencils, dice, and a few rule books.”
― Ernest Cline, Ready Player One

“The first caller’s avatar appeared in front of me in my support chat room. His name and stats also appeared, floating in the air above him. He had the astoundingly clever name of “HotCock007.” I could see that it was going to be another fabulous day. HotCock007 was a hulking bald barbarian with studded black leather armor and lots of demon tattoos covering his arms and face. He was holding a gigantic bastard sword nearly twice as long as his avatar’s body. “Good morning, Mr. HotCock007,” I droned. “Thank you for calling technical support. I’m tech rep number 338645. How may I help you this evening?” The customer courtesy software filtered my voice, altering its tone and inflection to ensure that I always sounded cheerful and upbeat. “Uh, yeah …” HotCock007 began. “I just bought this bad-ass sword, and now I can’t even use it! I can’t even attack nothing with it. What the hell is wrong with this piece of shit? Is it broke?” “Sir, the only problem is that you’re a complete fucking moron,” I said. I heard a familiar warning buzzer and a message flashed on my display: COURTESY VIOLATION—FLAGS: FUCKING, MORON
LAST RESPONSE MUTED—VIOLATION LOGGED”
― Ernest Cline, Ready Player One

“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.
Oh, and by the way... there's no Santa Claus or Easter Bunny. Also bullshit. Sorry, kid. Deal with it.”
― Ernest Cline, Ready Player One

“You see, thinkers, inventors, and scientists are usually geeks, and geeks have a harder time getting laid than anyone. Without the built-in sexual release valve provided by masturbation, it’s doubtful that early humans would have ever mastered the secrets of fire or discovered the wheel. And you can bet that Galileo, Newton, and Einstein never would have made their discoveries if they hadn’t first been able to clear their heads by slapping the salami (or “knocking a few protons off the old hydrogen atom”). The same goes for Marie Curie. Before she discovered radium, you can be certain she first discovered the little man in the canoe. It”
― Ernest Cline, Ready Player One

“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, Ready Player One

“Being human totally sucks most of the time. Videogames are the only thing that
make life bearable.”
― Ernest Cline, Ready Player One

“Spending time with her was intoxicating. We seemed to have everything in common. We shared the same interest. We were driven by the same goal. She got all my jokes. She made me laugh. She made me think. She changed the way I saw the world. I'd never had such a powerful, immediate connection with another human being before. Not even with Aech.”
― Ernest Cline, Ready Player One

“hikikomori,”
― Ernest Cline, Ready Player One

“In the OASIS, you could become whomever and whatever you wanted to be, without ever revealing your true identity, because your anonymity was guaranteed.”
― Ernest Cline, Ready Player One

“recommended gunter reading list. 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

“We’d connected on a purely mental level.”
― Ernest Cline, Ready Player One

“Capitalism would inch forward, without my actually having to interact face-to-face with another human being. Which was exactly how I preferred it, thank you.”
― Ernest Cline, Ready Player One

“Everything about our online personas is filtered through our avatars, which allows us to control how we look and sound to others. The OASIS lets you be whoever you want to be. That’s why everyone is addicted to it.”
― Ernest Cline, Ready Player One

“Las únicas armas eran las palabras, por lo que no tarde en aprender a blandirlas con mucha habilidad.”
― Ernest Cline, Ready Player One

“Going outside is highly overrated”
― Ernest Cline, Ready Player One

“It occurred to me then that for the first time in as long as I could remember, I had absolutely no desire to log back into the OASIS.”
― Ernest Cline, Ready Player One

“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

“The hour or so after I woke up was my least favorite part of each day, because I spent it in the real world. This was when I dealt with the tedious business of cleaning and exercising my physical body. I hated this part of the day because everything about it contradicted my other life. My real life, inside the OASIS. The sight of my tiny one-room apartment, my immersion rig, or my reflection in the mirror—they all served as a harsh reminder that the world I spent my days in was not, in fact, the real one.”
― Ernest Cline, Ready Player One

“It felt wonderful. Like being struck by lightning.”
― Ernest Cline, Ready Player One

“I was too weird, even for the weirdos.”
― Ernest Cline, Ready Player One

“world to hide from its problems while human civilization slowly collapses, primarily due to neglect.” Rumors”
― Ernest Cline, Ready Player One

“You're going to turn it into a fascist corporate theme park where the few people who can still afford the price of admission no longer have an ounce of freedom.”
― Ernest Cline, Ready Player One

“Whenever I saw the sun, I reminded myself that I was looking at a star.”
― Ernest Cline, Ready Player One

“I wanted to propose marriage.”
― Ernest Cline, Ready Player One

“No one in the world ever gets what thet want, ans that is beautiful.”
― Ernest Cline, Ready player one - Tome 1

“I watched every episode of The Greatest American Hero, Airwolf, The A-Team, Knight Rider, Misfits of Science, and The Muppet Show.”
― Ernest Cline, Ready Player One

“That’s because most gunters are male, and they can’t accept the idea that a woman has beaten and/or outsmarted them.”
― Ernest Cline, Ready Player One