The History of the Future Quotes

“So that’s what the cigarettes are for,” Mitchell noted, as McCauley broke out a carton of Marlboro Reds and started divvying up packs to the engineers. And little by little, the scheduling estimates started to improve. That mold they said would take a week? Maybe it would really only take three days.”
― Blake J. Harris, The History of the Future: Oculus, Facebook, and the Revolution That Swept Virtual Reality

“As he tinkered away inside his trailer—pumping himself up with power metal music—he was reminded of something that visionary game programmer John Carmack had once said about virtual reality: “It’s a moral imperative,” Carmack had described, touting the ways in which VR could empower anyone—of any socioeconomic standing—to experience anything.”
― Blake J. Harris, The History of the Future: Oculus, Facebook, and the Revolution That Swept Virtual Reality

“He was intelligent but still intelligible.”
― Blake J. Harris, The History of the Future: Oculus, Facebook, and the Revolution That Swept Virtual Reality

“This is really, really something,” McCauley said. “This is really going to change things. Provided, of course, that you guys don’t fuck it up.”
― Blake J. Harris, The History of the Future: Oculus, Facebook, and the Revolution That Swept Virtual Reality