325 Quotes by Ernest Cline

"My favorite video game of all time is called 'Black Tiger'. It's a Capcom Dungeons and Dragons game from 1987. I have the actual arcade version sitting in my office."

"Once the people of planet Earth are all hanging out together online in a virtual world without any borders, I think it could change social networking, entertainment and even politics."

"I think it's a bit silly to brand the Internet as the 'downfall of youth.'"

"I'm incredibly nostalgic for the '80s, because I think that's when Geek Culture really kicked in to high gear."

"I was 7 years old when the '80s began and 17 years old when they ended, so it was an incredibly formative decade for me."

"I've never really collected anything other than old Atari cartridges. I only had, like, 12 Atari games as a kid, so at some point in my 20s I decided I was going to own all of them."

"Everybody uses pop culture as a shorthand."

"I've retroactively made all that wasted time rotting my brain into research. It makes me a hypocrite when I try to tell my own daughter, "I don't know, I think we've played a little too much Mario.""

"I never ran out of ammo, because each time I fired a round, a new round was teleported into the bottom of the clip. My bullet bill this month was going to be huge."

"My characters are all kind of geek archetypes of people I've encountered at gaming and comic book conventions."