Rudy Rucker Quotes, Sayings, Remarks, Thoughts and Speeches



Rudy Rucker Quotes and Sayings


  • 1
    A computation is a process that obeys finitely describable rules. Rudy Rucker | Refcard PDF
  • 2
    Advice to beginning SF writers? Write a lot, finish what you write, and when it's done, keep sending it out for quite awhile. Rudy Rucker | Refcard PDF
  • 3
    All living things are gnarly, in that they inevitably do things that are much more complex than one might have expected. Rudy Rucker | Refcard PDF
  • 4
    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. Rudy Rucker | Refcard PDF
  • 5
    But how does it feel to plug into a system that's say, a million times as smart as a person. Rudy Rucker | Refcard PDF
  • 6
    Computations are everywhere, once you begin to look at things in a certain way. Rudy Rucker | Refcard PDF
  • 7
    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. Rudy Rucker | Refcard PDF
  • 8
    I like a book better if I can't predict what's going to happen. Rudy Rucker | Refcard PDF
  • 9
    I like to do things that are surprising and different. Rudy Rucker | Refcard PDF
  • 10
    I think dry nanotechnology is probably a dead-end. Rudy Rucker | Refcard PDF
  • 11
    If all else fails, there's always print or web zines. Rudy Rucker | Refcard PDF
  • 12
    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. Rudy Rucker | Refcard PDF
  • 13
    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! Rudy Rucker | Refcard PDF
  • 14
    In any case, A New Kind of Science is a wonderful book, and I'm still absorbing its teachings. Rudy Rucker | Refcard PDF
  • 15
    It's soothing to realize that my mind's processes are inherently uncontrollable. Rudy Rucker | Refcard PDF
  • 16
    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. Rudy Rucker | Refcard PDF
  • 17
    Lately I've been working to convince myself that everything is a computation. Rudy Rucker | Refcard PDF
  • 18
    Now, being a science fiction writer, when I see a natural principle, I wonder if it could fail. Rudy Rucker | Refcard PDF
  • 19
    One of the nice things about science fiction is that it lets us carry out thought experiments. Rudy Rucker | Refcard PDF
  • 20
    Science fiction writers put characters into a world with arbitrary rules and work out what happens. Rudy Rucker | Refcard PDF
  • 21
    Selling a book or story has never become absolutely automatic for me. Rudy Rucker | Refcard PDF
  • 22
    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. Rudy Rucker | Refcard PDF
  • 23
    The hard fact is that not everyone does get published. Rudy Rucker | Refcard PDF
  • 24
    Traditional science is all about finding shortcuts. Rudy Rucker | Refcard PDF
  • 25
    Unfortunately our nation, nay, our world, is run by evil morons. Rudy Rucker | Refcard PDF

 

  

  

 

  

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