Quotes from Ernest Cline

and our seeming disregard for its effect on our already-changing climate—in an entirely new light.

For me, growing up as a human being on the planet Earth in the twenty-first century was a real kick in the teeth.

Does anyone else find this shit completely terrifying

The vast wasteland of television programming had finally reached its zenith, and the average person was no longer limited to fifteen minutes of fame.

one in the world ever gets what they want and that is beautiful.

Getting outside is highly overrated.

I'd finally gained enough distance from my addiction to realize something. Human beings were never meant to participate in a worldwide social network comprised of billions of people.

life is like an extremely difficult, horribly unbalanced videogame. When you're born, you're given a randomly generated character, with a randomly determined name, race, face, and social class. Your body is your avatar, and you spawn in a random geographic location, at a random moment in human history, surrounded by a random group of people, and then you have to try to survive for as long as you can.

A dream worth chasing. For the last five years, the Hunt had given me a goal and purpose. A quest to fulfill. A reason to get up in the morning. Something to look forward to.

After I won Halliday's contest

a Habashaw OIR-9400

GSS—13th Floor—Vault #42—8675309.