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121 " Nejsem z reality zrovna na větvi, ale je to pořád jediné místo, kde dostanete slušné jídlo. (Groucho Marx) "
― Ernest Cline , Ready Player One (Ready Player One, #1)
122 " 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. "
123 " Good luck, Parzival," he said. "And thanks. Thanks for playing my game. "
124 " final scene of Anorak’s Invitation, by the way. "
125 " Those stories you heard? About going to a wonderful place called ‘heaven’ where there is no more pain or death and you live forever in a state of perpetual happiness? Also total bullshit. Just like all that God stuff. There’s no evidence of a heaven and there never was. We made that up too. Wishful thinking. So "
126 " The captain conceals the Jade Key in a dwelling long neglected But you can only blow the whistle once the trophies are all collected For "
127 " On the few occasions that Halliday agreed to do interviews, his behavior came off as bizarre, even by game-designer standards. He was hyperkinetic, aloof, and so socially inept that the interviewers often came away with the impression he was mentally ill. "
128 " 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. "
129 " Then she snapped her fingers and we were standing on Europa, discussing the possibility of extraterrestrial life beneath the moon’s icy crust. I "
130 " I studied Monty Python. And not just Holy Grail, either. Every single one of their films, albums, and books, and every episode of the original BBC series. (Including those two “lost” episodes they did for German television.) "
131 " We played vintage board games, watched movies, and listened to music. We talked for hours. Long, rambling conversations about everything under the sun. Spending time with her was intoxicating. We seemed to have everything in common. We shared the same interests. We were driven by the same goal. She got all of 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. "
132 " We’ll do our best.” “I know you will. "
133 " we spread across the entire planet like an unstoppable virus. "
134 " But we also figured out how to do science, which helped us develop technology. "
135 " Helpful Help-desk Incorporated took millions of calls a day, from all over the world, 24-7, 365. One angry, befuddled cretin after another. There was no down time between the calls because there were always several hundred morons in the call queue, all of them willing to wait on hold for hours to have a tech-rep hold their hand and fix their problems. Why bother looking up the solution online, why try to figure the problem out on your own when you could have someone else do your thinking for you. "
136 " I should be thanking you. I haven’t had this much fun in decades! "
137 " Yeah. I was on a roll. In less than six months, I’d managed to wreck both of my closest friendships. "
138 " There was no downtime between calls, because there were always several hundred morons in the call queue, all of them willing to wait on hold for hours to have a tech rep hold their hand and fix their problem. Why bother looking up the solution online? Why try to figure the problem out on your own when you could have someone else do your thinking for you? "
139 " Time to make the doughnuts. "
140 " I tried to keep my cool. I tried to remain skeptical. I reminded myself that I was a man of science, even if I did usually get a C in it. "