"I spent most of my childhood welded to……" — Ernest Cline
"I spent most of my childhood welded to my Atari 2600, until I got my first computer, a TRS-80."
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31 Quotes by Ernest Cline
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Whenever I saw the sun, I reminded myself that I was looking at a star. One of over a hundred…
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Virtual sex, no matter how realistic, was really nothing but glorified, computer-assisted masturbation.
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I was a painfully shy, awkward kid, with low self-esteem and almost no social skills. Online, I didn't have a…
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Continue your quest by taking the test. Yes, but what test? What test was I supposed to take? The Kobayashi Maru?…
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Very well! he said. You shall prove your worth by facing me in a joust! I'd never heard of an…
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I’d designed my avatar’s face and body to look, more or less, like my own. My avatar had a slightly…
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You’re evil, you know that?” I said. She grinned and shook her head. “Chaotic Neutral, sugar.
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...now that everyone could vote from home, via the OASIS, the only people who could get elected were movie stars,…
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I never ran out of ammo, because each time I fired a round, a new round was teleported into the…
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You'd be amazed how much research you can get done when you have no life whatsoever.
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I felt like a kid standing in the world's greatest video arcade without any quarters, unable to do anything but…
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I watched a lot of YouTube videos of cute geeky girls playing '80s cover tunes on ukuleles. Technically, this wasn't…
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More Atari Quotes
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I had an awful lot of my soul invested in Atari culture.
— Nolan Bushnell
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Some of the best projects to ever come out of Atari or Chuck E. Cheese's were from high school dropouts,…
— Nolan Bushnell
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Everybody copied Atari products. So we started messing with them and it was fun. We bought enough chips that we…
— Nolan Bushnell
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In 1980, Atari was bringing in around two billion dollars in revenue and Chuck E. Cheese's some five hundred million.…
— Nolan Bushnell
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The guys from Atari that are making the next Alone in the Dark game came and we had a great…
— Christian Slater
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And so the idea was, well maybe you can take an Atari video game machine, where people plug in a…
— Steve Case
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Indisputably we live in a shaped reality, an artificialism. Most people who grasp this are thinking only at a consumer-level,…
— Kenny Smith
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I founded Atari in my garage in Santa Clara while at Stanford. When I was in school, I took a…
— Nolan Bushnell
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When I was a kid, I had an Atari 2600, and I would play Pac Man, Frogger, all that kind…
— Jack McBrayer
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So we went to Atari and said, 'Hey, we've got this amazing thing, even built with some of your parts,…
— Steve Jobs
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Atari is a very sad story.
— Steve Wozniak
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I was on one of my fruitarian diets" Steve Jobs recalled "I had just comeback from the apple farm. It…
— Walter Isaacson
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