I have to avoid things like 'World of Warcraft' or 'Minecraft', otherwise I'd never get any work done.

I've been invited to speak at about 20 colleges. There's always this moment when I'm having dinner with the college president: 'Ernie, where'd you go to school?'

I've heard Stephen King say that when you write a novel you end up revealing everything about yourself.

I created the OASIS because I never felt at home in the real world. I didn't know how to connect with the people there.

...now that everyone could vote from home, via the OASIS, the only people who could get elected were movie stars, reality TV personalities, or radical televangelists.

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

Steven Spielberg making a Ready Player One movie is going to change the course of human history as pertains to how quickly virtual reality is adopted. He's going to shows the whole world the potential of VR, which is one of the reasons I think he's doing it. Once you have to compose for 360 degrees, and a movie is different every time you watch it depending on where you choose to look, it's like the dawn of a new era.