The best Quotes by Ken Williams

We're very proud of what we created all those years ago with Sierra Online, and today's news about carrying Sierra forward as an indie-specific brand is very encouraging. We look forward to seeing Sierra's independent spirit live on, and are especially excited to see what The Odd Gentlemen will do with King's Quest.

King's Quest Video games

My working life happened to have been EXACTLY 'the magic years' when computers went from nowhere to somewhere.

(Husband of Roberta Williams) - 07/2003

Computer

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Home is a hard place to leave, even if you are unhappy there.

Alexander in King's Quest - VI: Heir Today, Gone Tomorrow

Home

Fate is not like the cut of a blade, young one, but rather like the myriad of paths formed when a hammer cracks ice.

Oracle in King's Quest - VI: Heir Today, Gone Tomorrow

Fate & Destiny

Faith is not something to be found. It needs to be ignited and then embedded deep within the very soul of all people.

Old Dwarf in King's Quest - VIII: The Mask of Eternity

Faith Courage

A man who would save others, must first save himself.

Druid in King's Quest - VI: Heir Today, Gone Tomorrow

Selflessness

Complete sentences - now there's something that's hard to come by these days.

Bookworm in King's Quest - VI: Heir Today, Gone Tomorrow

Sentences

How will I find this heart of mine?
Taken from me for some time
Here I stand in my pool of tears
Here I'll stay throughout the years

Weeping Willow in King's Quest - V: Absence Makes the Heart Go Yonder!

Heart Grief & Condolence

Alexander: "If your existence has been all that you say it has, then truth alone shall be my sword."
Narrator: "Reflections of despair, of wailing souls, of shackles colder and more immutable than any forged by man, of a world of thirsts that can never be quenched [..] His enslavement to this throne while still a man, the years of watching misery and horror and growing ever more numb to it. The seep of his own humanity, the slow growth of a new thing altogether which became that what he is now."

Narrator in King's Quest - VI: Heir Today, Gone Tomorrow

Love can't be banished, even from this place... still less can it be banished from my heart.

Alexander in King's Quest - VI: Heir Today, Gone Tomorrow

You are far from life. And love. And hope. You are surrounded by dust, and it is dust that you shall become.

Desert Spirit in King's Quest - VII: The Princeless Bride

The blade piercing Alexander's heart is barely felt after the greater pain of Cassima's condemning words.

Narrator in King's Quest - VI: Heir Today, Gone Tomorrow

I never forget a face. But in your case, I'll make an exception.

Mockingbird in King's Quest - VII: The Princeless Bride

Funny Insults

You can't cout to twenty without taking your shoes off.

Mockingbird in King's Quest - VII: The Princeless Bride

You must have fallen out of the ugly tree and hit every branch on the way down.

Mockingbird in King's Quest - VII: The Princeless Bride

Valanice: "How can you be so rude?!"
Mockingbird: "I'm a mockingbird, lady, what did you expect? Quick, go soak your head. Your brain is overheating."

Mockingbird in King's Quest - VII: The Princeless Bride

It seems the wolf caught up with you and is discussing dinner arrangements.

Narrator in King's Quest - I: Quest for the Crown

Strength and righteousness grow stronger by being tried.

Oracle of the Tree in King's Quest - VIII: The Mask of Eternity

I have no desire to die, spirit... as many a corpse will attest!

Connor in King's Quest - VIII: The Mask of Eternity

Where were you born, a barn? It's a pigsty back here! Yeah! All this stuff you got! Whaddaya wanna carry all this trash around for?

Rotten Tomatoe in King's Quest - VI: Heir Today, Gone Tomorrow

If you refuse to defend yourself, you must've faked the letter. Since you cannot prove your point, I shall prove mine.

Captain Saladin in King's Quest - VI: Heir Today, Gone Tomorrow

Ah, life-giving water! Nectar of the Gods! Graham can feel strength and renewal flowing through him.

Narrator in King's Quest - V: Absence Makes the Heart Go Yonder!

He's not boring Rosella, he's reliable.

Valanice in King's Quest - VII: The Princeless Bride

Bump-on-a-log: "His temper's about the only thing that ever gets a workout, and that on yours truly."
Stick-in-the-mud: "Oh sure! Like, you've moved at all in the last century! Like, you're Mr. Physical Activity!"

King's Quest - VI: Heir Today, Gone Tomorrow

What are you nuts? Don't put me in that soup-bowl of a pond, ya' crazy human!

Rotten Tomatoe in King's Quest - VI: Heir Today, Gone Tomorrow

My first is foremost legally,
my second circles outwardly,
my third leads all in victory,
my fourth twice ends a nominee,
my whole is this gate's only key.

Menacing Gate in King's Quest - VI: Heir Today, Gone Tomorrow

Tend carefully your faith! From a small spark can still a blaze grow.

Connor in King's Quest - VIII: The Mask of Eternity

Faith Courage

If you find your true love, protect her with your life. We're all beasts without the redeeming humanity of love.

Beast in King's Quest - VI: Heir Today, Gone Tomorrow

Love

She is cheating. No one can be that attractive and this skilled at a video game.

Sheldon Cooper in The Big Bang Theory - Season 1 Episode 7

Nerds Video games

Being human totally sucks most of the time. Videogames are the only thing that make life bearable.

Ernest Cline in Ready Player One

Video games

In the early '80s, the arcade game Pac-Man was twice as popular as oxygen.

Charlie Brooker

Video games 80s

I applaud anything that can take a kid away from a PlayStation or a Gameboy. That is a miracle in itself.

Gary Oldman

Upbringing Video games PlayStation

A frequent user of the "Kill monsters, get experience points for free" wanted to get a final deal.

Sacred - Grave Inscription

Video games

That’s how you know you’ve mastered a videogame - when a bunch of butt-hurt crybabies start to accuse you of cheating in an effort to cope with the beatdown they’ve just suffered at your hands.

Ernest Cline in Armada

Video games

I'm a princess, even if my kingdom is pixelated.

Nerds Video games

Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock-n-roll.

Shigeru Miyamoto

Video games Rock 'n' Roll

The obvious objective of video games is to entertain people by surprising them with new experiences.

Shigeru Miyamoto

Video games

Computers may out-think us one day, but as long as people got feelings we'll be better than they are.

Elvis Presley

Computer Artificial Intelligence

It was one thing to use computers as a tool, quite another to let them do your thinking for you.

Tom Clancy in The Hunt for Red October

Computer Artificial Intelligence

Computers make excellent and efficient servants, but I have no wish to serve under them.

Mister Spock in Star Trek - Season 2 Episode 24

Computer Artificial Intelligence

Supercomputers will achieve one human brain capacity by 2010, and personal computers will do so by about 2020.

Ray Kurzweil

Computer Brain

Droids are not good or bad. They are neutral reflections of those who imprint them.

Kuiil in The Mandalorian - Season 1 Episode 7

Computer

One of the most feared expressions in modern times is "The computer is down."

Norman Ralph Augustine

Computer

Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window.

Steve Wozniak

Computer

I had a TV set and a typewriter and that made me think a computer should be laid out like a typewriter with a video screen.

Steve Wozniak

Computer

The rise of Google, the rise of Facebook, the rise of Apple, I think are proof that there is a place for computer science as something that solves problems that people face every day.

Eric Schmidt

Computer Internet Facebook Apple Google

Some a-hole leaks it online and I'm like, you know, looking at the guy in the mirror brushing my teeth, "Dude, what have you done? This could be punishable by law!" But the internet forced the studio to say, "We're gonna make this movie", and 24 hours later, that movie had a green light.

Ryan Reynolds - September 2025

Deadpool

But I don't understand why the Jeffrey Epstein case would be of interest to anybody. It's pretty boring stuff, it's sordid but it's boring and I don't understand why it keeps going.

Donald Trump - July 2025

The Epstein Files

There are two kinds of big companies in the United States. There are those who've been hacked by the Chinese, and those who don't know they've been hacked by the Chinese.

James Comey

China Hackers

I believe that Americans should be deeply skeptical of government power. You cannot trust people in power. The founders knew that. That's why they divided power among three branches, to set interest against interest.

James Comey

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