The Impossible Fortress Quotes

“It was one of those ideas that doesn't sound stupid until someone says it out loud.”
― Jason Rekulak, The Impossible Fortress

“Girls practically invented programming,” she said. “Jean Bartik, Marlyn Wescoff, Fran Bilas—they all programmed ENIAC.” I had no idea what she was talking about. “And don’t forget Margaret Hamilton. She wrote the software that let Apollo 11 land on the moon.” “I meant programming video games,” I said. “Dona Bailey, Centipede. Brenda Romero, Wizardry. Roberta Williams, King’s Quest. She designed her first computer game at the kitchen table. I interviewed her for school last year.”
― Jason Rekulak, The Impossible Fortress

“So we stood up there for a long while, watching the sunset and discussing how it was one of those things you could never truly capture in 8-bit, not with the simplistic definition of violet (CHR$(156)), orange (CHR$(129)), and yellow (CHR$(158)). There were too many other colors, thousands of colors. The hardware could never do justice to it.”
― Jason Rekulak, The Impossible Fortress

“We were supposed to be businessmen coming off the train after a long day in Manhattan, but Alf looked like he was ready to seize cocaine from a Colombian drug lord.”
― Jason Rekulak, The Impossible Fortress

“The Impossible Fortress that you can play for free at my author website, jasonrekulak.com. My high score is 11,358 and I hope you’ll leave me a note if you beat it.”
― Jason Rekulak, The Impossible Fortress

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― Jason Rekulak, The Impossible Fortress

“There are plenty of things that a teenage boy doesn’t tell his mother. As we get older, there are more and more things we hold back, things too hard to say or too embarrassing to explain. We do this to protect our mothers as much as ourselves, because let’s face it—most of our thoughts are truly unthinkable.”
― Jason Rekulak, The Impossible Fortress