Rudy Rucker Quotes

Traditional science is all about finding shortcuts... view

By: Rudy Rucker

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

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

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

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

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

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

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The hard fact is that not everyone does get published... view

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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... view

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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... view

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I think dry nanotechnology is probably a dead-end... view

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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... view

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

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

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If you think of your life as a kind of computation, it's quite abundantly clear that there's not going to be a final answer and there won't be anything particularly wonderful about having the computation halt!.. view

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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... view

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

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

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

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

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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... view

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

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

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A computation is a process that obeys finitely describable rules... view

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I like to do things that are surprising and different... view

By: Rudy Rucker