Top 450 Ernest Cline Quotes (2026 Update)
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451. “Space – First coin-op arcade game – port of Spacewar!”

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452. “Great, Wade, I thought. You just called her laugh “dorky.” Real smooth.”

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453. “OK, Arty,” I said.”

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454. “I fired a last volley of plasma bolts at the unprotected enemy ship, which was already vibrating from the buildup of power in its reactor core, and held my breath as they streaked toward it, silently praying to Crom that they would reach the Glaive and destroy it before it finished transforming itself into a weapon of mass destruction.”

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455. “Zum ersten Mal in meinem Leben konnte mir die OASIS gestohlen bleiben.”

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456. “I don’t care if Spielberg directed.”

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457. “Knavery?” Art3mis said after she’d finished reading it. “Were you using a thesaurus when you wrote this?”

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458. “Don’t say that!” I was starting to cry and didn’t bother hiding it from her. “Is it because I told you I’ve never had a real girlfriend? And that I’m a virgin? Because-.”

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459. “According to him, the firmware on our OIVs has not been altered in any way – it just isn’t functioning properly now, due to the changes in Anorak’s infirmware.”

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460. “You don’t need to sell me on anything, Wade,” she said. “You’re my best friend. My favorite person.” With.”

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461. “The Solar Federation was controlled by a group of “priests,” who are described in Part II of the song, titled “The Temples of Syrinx.” Its lyrics told me exactly where the Crystal Key was hidden: We are the Priests of the Temples of Syrinx Our great computers fill the hallowed halls. We are the Priests of the Temples of Syrinx All the gifts of life are held within our walls. There was a planet in Sector Twenty-one named Syrinx. That was where I was headed now.”

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462. “Og gave the Sega Ninja cabinet an awkward pat, as if it were an unfamiliar Labrador. Then he shoved both his hands into his pockets and grinned at me like a lovestruck idiot. He looked as if his pupils might change into cartoon hearts at any second.”

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463. “Halliday’s favorite sci-fi novels, TV shows, and movies.”

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464. “It was Art3mis. She wore a suit of scaled gunmetal-blue armor that looked more sci-fi than fantasy. Twin blaster pistols were slung low on her hips in quickdraw holsters, and there was a long, curved elvish sword in a scabbard across her back. She wore fingerless Road Warrior–style racing gloves and a pair of classic Ray-Ban shades. Overall, she seemed to be going for a sort of mid-’80s postapocalyptic cyberpunk girl-next-door look. And it was working for me, in a big way. In a word: hot.”

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465. “My father’s face contorted in pain, and that was when I turned and walked away, well out of earshot, to let them talk in private – and to avoid a crying jag of my own.”

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466. “Player One button, and my worries would instantly slip away as my mind focused itself on the relentless pixelated onslaught on the screen in front of me. There, inside the game’s two-dimensional universe, life was simple: It’s just you against the machine. Move with your left hand, shoot with your right, and try to stay alive as long as possible.”

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467. “Something Daito had left to me in his will.”

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468. “And in addition to the credits, my avatar received an equal number of experience points for obtaining the coins.”

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469. “That was the reason a lot of our own users had started to refer to GSS as the “New Sixers” and me, Aech, Shoto, and Samantha as the “Four Nerds of the Apocalypse.”

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470. “Ray, we don’t have much time,” I said. “We need to access the EDA intranet node hidden here in the store. It’s an emergency.” Ray only hesitated for a split second. “Behind the UFO poster on the back wall.” I turned and located the one he was talking about – a framed reprint of Mulder’s “I Want to Believe” poster from The X-Files. I took it down, revealing what appeared to be a small titanium safe embedded in the brick wall behind it, with a keypad at its center.”

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471. “You’re just dead, your brain stops working, and then you’re not around to ask annoying questions anymore.”

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472. “At the center of all that gear was the opening DJ, R2-D2, hard at work, using his various robotic arms to work the turntables.”

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473. “You have a gift for making friends who are much cooler than you are.”

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474. “Since then, we’d used Street Fighter II to settle our disputes.”

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475. “Where’d you get the coconuts?”

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476. “OASIS. The Ontologically Anthropocentric Sensory Immersive Simulation.”

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477. “On the seven worlds where the Siren once played a role For each fragment my heir must pay a toll To once again make the Siren whole.”

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478. “All I’d eaten that morning was a raw strawberry Pop-Tart I’d wolfed down in my car on the way to school – and.”

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479. “Over a forty-two-year period.”

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480. “Yeah. I was on a roll. In less than six months, I’d managed to wreck both of my closest friendships.”

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481. “My ship stood out in the vast array of vessels, since it was the only giant robot.”

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482. “It looks just like Rivendell,” Aech said, taking the words right out of my mouth.”

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483. “Ray seemed to subsist primarily on a diet of high-fructose junk food and old videogames.”

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484. “No,” Daito said. “We’re not. You’re all strangers to us. For all we know, any one of you could be a Sixer spy.”

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485. “Before I could protest, she laid a hand on my avatar’s chest and muttered a few arcane words.”

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486. “Once she and I started touching each other, we both found it difficult to stop.”

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487. “It was a partnership destined to alter the course of human history.”

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488. “Oh, and Wolverine had that idiotic Muramasa Blade made with part of his soul. Which, while incredibly lame, was still a far cooler magical weapon than Sting!”

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489. “Hello!” I shouted at the Six-Fingered Man one final time. “My name is Inigo Montoya! You killed my father. Prepare to die!”

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490. “He wasn’t dead!”

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491. “When I played the classics, I did so with a determined sort of reverence.”

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492. “Ray seemed about to say something more when a boom shook the entire shuttle. I felt a rush of panic, thinking we’d just come under attack. Then I realized we’d just broken the sound barrier.”

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493. “Finally, after it felt like we’d been crawling along the highway for months, the Columbus skyline appeared on the horizon, glittering like Oz at the end of the yellow brick road.”

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494. “NASA dubbed this spacecraft the Envoy I, and it reached Europa on the 9th of July, 1976 – the day humanity made its first direct contact with an alien intelligence.”

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495. “Like most gunters, I voted to reelect Cory Doctorow and Wil Wheaton.”

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