Zitate und Sprüche von 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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."

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

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

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

Strength and righteousness grow stronger by being tried.

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

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?

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

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

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!"

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

Your laugh is the reason your parents never tickled you growing up.

Jimmy has the work ethic of an immigrant and the personal wealth of the country that immigrant had to flee.