Top 41 Austin Grossman Quotes
#1. When you can't bear something but it goes on anyway, the person who survives isn't you anymore; you've changed and become someone else, a new person, the one who did bear it after all.
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#2. I'm drawing a diagram of what time looks like if you're looking straight into it - like looking down a tunnel and seeing a circle, if the tunnel were an angry ten-dimensional crab, which is what, in vastly oversimplified terms, we mean by the human word time.
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#3. You haven't known terror until you've been chased by a man-sized crow.
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#4. Computers had their origin in military cryptography - in a sense, every computer game represents the commandeering of a military code-breaking apparatus for purposes of human expression.
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#5. If you're different you always know it, and you can't fix it even if you want to
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#6. There's a fine line between a superpower and a chronic medical condition.
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#7. The woman was simply leaving us alone with our future, the future she wouldn't be a part of. She didn't know how to do it or what it was, but she was trying to give it to us.
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#8. We were feeling something they never had - a physical link into the world of the fictional - through the skeletal muscles of the arm to the joystick to the tiny person on the screen, a person in an imagined world. It was crude but real.
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#9. I saw the misadjusted dials and the whirling gauges and the bubbling green fluid and the electricity arcing around, and a story laid out for me, my sorry self alchemically transmuted into power and robots and fortresses and orbital platforms and costumes and alien kings.
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#10. I'm cold and free and the smartest man in the world, and this time they're going to know it, I promise you. I promise you that.
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#11. My name is Richard Milhous Nixon. I swore an oath to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution. I was educated at Whittier College in Whittier, California, and I have seen the devil walk.
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#13. None of the questions was what I expected. Most of them were esoteric thought experiments, 'How would you turn Pride and Prejudice into a video game?' and 'If you added a button to Pac-Man, what would you want it to do?' Conundrums like 'How come when Mario jumps he can change direction in midair?
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#14. When you get your powers, you learn a lot about yourself. My professors called me mad. It was time for me to stop punishing myself, and start punishing everybody else.
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#15. When your laboratory explodes, lacing your body with a supercharged elixir, what do you do? You don't just lie there. You crawl out of the rubble, hideously scarred, and swear vengeance on the world. You keep going. You keep trying to take over the world.
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#16. Save the world? I don't think so. I have my reasons. The world was lost a long time ago, and nothing's going to fix it, maybe not even science.
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#17. All of it. Lincoln, Taft, what they did. The H-bomb, the RAND Corporation, the king of Persia, the whole long con of it all.
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#18. Another teen friendship, another tiny mysterious universe.
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#19. A generation of lawyers and statisticians cut their teeth on the to-hit and damage tables of medieval fantasy. File it under yet another ridiculous thing that probably saved somebody's life.
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#20. The heroes pop out at you, impossibly vivid, colorful as playing cards but all from different decks, a jumble of incompatible suits and denominations dealt out for an Alice in Wonderland game.
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#21. It's raining outside. How did you get here? And how did you get to be twenty-eight?
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#22. Could you make a computer imagine an entire world? How would you start? A generation of people would wrestle with this problem - they're still wrestling with it.
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#23. We held certain truths to be self-evident, but those truths were that elves hate orcs and wizards can't wear metal armor.
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#24. Lisa had an engineer's way of shrugging off the entire field of the humanities, all three thousand years of it, as self-indulgent fuzzy thinking.
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#25. The voice came from the other side of the divider, an older man, bald, who wore a leather vest over a dark blue button-down shirt, like a Radio Shack manager who moonlighted as a forest brigand.
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#26. The people who hired me have been shot. The people who shot them have been shot.
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#27. With 'Invincible', I wanted to create my own version of the Marvel or DC universe, with my own heroes and villains.
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#28. Video games are a huge, incredibly popular, world-transforming medium.
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#29. As Eskimo language is to snow, so archaic English is to 'metal objects designed to cause harm'.
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#30. You don't build a 100 ft robot out of nothing ... there's rumors and gossip, trace evidence. There's a shadow economy out there, where these things get done.
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#31. Writing a novel was completely awesome because parts of it could suck and I could throw them away. I didn't have to know the ending until I got there.
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#32. This isn't the first time you've done this, or the fifth or the tenth. I guess it's time to think of it as your life.
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#33. I wrote code that merely did what it was supposed to do. Simon's solutions were rapid and weird - convoluted, sometimes in a pointless way, often in a way that looked pointless until you saw how elegant it was.
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#36. The video game story-development process is incredibly broken.
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#37. Delicious ... Everything I'd hoped for in a new Wild Cards book. The character interactions and plot twists have exactly the complexity, surprise, and unsentimental realism I'd expect out of a George R. R. Martin project.
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#38. Chess is a game with simple rules and pieces, a small sixty-four-space board, but there are more possible chess games than there are atoms in the universe.
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#39. One day you wake up and realize the world can be conquered ... I'm going to put a mask on and scrawl my name across the face of the world, build cities of gold, come back and stomp this place flat, until even the bricks are just dust. So you can just shut up. All of you. I'm going to move the world.
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#40. You mean like in Archon? For the C64?"
"Um. Right." Lisa scowled even a little more. A bearded guy at the back rolled his eyes, as if in disbelief at what a loser I was; he was wearing a jester's hat. It had come to this.
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#41. There are days when you just don't feel all that evil."
You don't become a world-class villain overnight."
-Dr. Impossible
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