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VR really changes everything for flight because the old simulators for the PC were 2D, and you couldn't look around inside the cockpit and learn the controls or even track other planes through the cockpit.

~Ernest Cline

Topics: Around Because Changes Controls Even Everything Flight Inside Learn Look Old Other Planes Really Through Track Were You Pc Vr

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I was standing on the shoulders of other science fiction writers like William Gibson, who had written 'Neuromancer' on a typewriter before home computers even really existed, and Neal Stephenson who wrote 'Snow Crash' in the early '90s and imagined an online virtual world before the birth of the modern Internet.

~Ernest Cline

Topics: Before Birth Computers Crash Early Even Existed Fiction Fiction Writers Gibson Had Home Imagined Internet Like Modern Online Other Really Science Science Fiction Shoulders Snow Standing Typewriter Virtual Who William World Writers Written Wrote

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Growing up in rural Ohio, I knew my way around a double-wide pretty well.

~Ernest Cline

Topics: Around Growing Growing Up Knew Ohio Pretty Rural Up Way Well

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I wanted to be able to write in the voice that I talk to my friends and assume that everybody would know what I was talking about.

~Ernest Cline

Topics: Able About Assume Everybody Friends Know Talk Talking Voice Wanted Would Write

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When you're hanging out with your friends, you reference books and movies, and you don't always know if your friends know what you're referencing. But you throw it out there, and if it connects, it makes people laugh.

~Ernest Cline

Topics: Always Books Connects Friends Hanging Know Laugh Makes Movies Out People Reference Throw You Your

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It's weird that, in a way, by writing about video games, I get to develop them, too.

~Ernest Cline

Topics: About Develop Games Get Them Too Video Video Games Way Weird Writing

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I have such a vivid memory of seeing science fiction movies and going to the lobby and playing whatever the space games were, and imagine I was blowing up the Death Star.

~Ernest Cline

Topics: Blowing Death Fiction Games Going Imagine Lobby Memory Movies Playing Science Science Fiction Seeing Space Star Up Vivid Were Whatever

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I love stories like 'The Terminator' movies and 'The Matrix,' where our machines become self-aware and turn on us.

~Ernest Cline

Topics: Become Like Love Love Stories Machines Matrix Movies Our Stories Turn Us Where I Love

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I've been to Oculus a few times to do book signings and things there, and they tell me 'Ready Player One' is, like, required reading for new employees.

~Ernest Cline

Topics: Been Book Book Signings Employees Few Like Me New Player Reading Ready Required Tell Things Times

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: Unknown

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