Rudy Rucker Quotes

I think dry nanotechnology is probably a dead-end.

If all else fails, there's always print or web zines.

If we suppose that many natural phenomena are in effect computations, the study of computer science can tell us about the kinds of natural phenomena that can occur.

Lately I’ve been working to convince myself that everything is a computation.

A computation is a process that obeys finitely describable rules.

Computations are everywhere, once you begin to look at things in a certain way.

All living things are gnarly, in that they inevitably do things that are much more complex than one might have expected.

The world is magic. Science is but an insipid style of sorcery.

Traditional science is all about finding shortcuts.

At present, however, I don't think the Net is a very good medium for books, books should really be inexpensive lightweight paperbacks you can bang around.

A little-known truth: Every aspect of the world is fundamentally unpredictable. Computer scientists have long since proved this.

We're part of the unfolding world, surfing the chaotic waves

One of the nice things about science fiction is that it lets us carry out thought experiments.

Electronic distribution is more of a fall-back strategy for putting out a book that isn't deemed profitable enough to print. You hardly make any money publishing an electronic book.

Unfortunately our nation, nay, our world, is run by evil morons.

Some ideas you have to chew on, then roll them around a lot, play with them before you can turn them into funky science fiction.

Science fiction writers put characters into a world with arbitrary rules and work out what happens.

Now, being a science fiction writer, when I see a natural principle, I wonder if it could fail.

It's soothing to realize that my mind's processes are inherently uncontrollable.

I like to do things that are surprising and different.

The churning of a human mind is unpredictable, as is the anatomy of the human heart.

I am, as it were, an eye that the cosmos uses to look at itself. The Mind is not mine alone; the Mind is everywhere.

But how does it feel to plug into a system that's say, a million times as smart as a person.

It's tedious to watch something very obvious being worked out, like a movie that's not particularly good and after about half an hour you know how it's going to end.

I like a book better if I can't predict what's going to happen.

Advice to beginning SF writers? Write a lot, finish what you write, and when it's done, keep sending it out for quite awhile.

In any case, A New Kind of Science is a wonderful book, and I'm still absorbing its teachings.

Selling a book or story has never become absolutely automatic for me.

The hard fact is that not everyone does get published.

Our bodies are the time machine.

Let the tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil fall, soundless in the moldering woods.