Rudy Rucker Quotes
"Unfortunately our nation, nay, our world, is run by evil morons."
- Rudy Rucker
(Related: Evil, Nation, World)
"Lately I've been working to convince myself that everything is a computation."
- Rudy Rucker
"Now, being a science fiction writer, when I see a natural principle, I wonder if it could fail."
- Rudy Rucker
(Related: Science, Being, Fiction, Now, Wonder, Writer)
"One of the nice things about science fiction is that it lets us carry out thought experiments."
- Rudy Rucker
(Related: Science, Thought, Fiction)
"Science fiction writers put characters into a world with arbitrary rules and work out what happens."
- Rudy Rucker
(Related: Science, Work, Fiction, Rules, World, Writers)
"Selling a book or story has never become absolutely automatic for me."
- Rudy Rucker
(Related: Selling)
"The hard fact is that not everyone does get published."
- Rudy Rucker
(Related: Fact)
"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
(Related: Science, Ideas, Fiction, Play)
"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
(Related: Money, Strategy, Publishing)
"I think dry nanotechnology is probably a dead-end."
- Rudy Rucker
"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
(Related: Being, End, Obvious)
"It's soothing to realize that my mind's processes are inherently uncontrollable."
- Rudy Rucker
(Related: Mind)
"In any case, A New Kind of Science is a wonderful book, and I'm still absorbing its teachings."
- Rudy Rucker
(Related: Science)
"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
(Related: Life)
"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
(Related: Science, Computer, Effect, Study)
"If all else fails, there's always print or web zines."
- Rudy Rucker
"I like a book better if I can't predict what's going to happen."
- Rudy Rucker
"Computations are everywhere, once you begin to look at things in a certain way."
- Rudy Rucker
"But how does it feel to plug into a system that's say, a million times as smart as a person."
- Rudy Rucker
"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
(Related: Books, Present)
"All living things are gnarly, in that they inevitably do things that are much more complex than one might have expected."
- Rudy Rucker
(Related: Living)
"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
(Related: Advice, Beginning, Writers)
"A computation is a process that obeys finitely describable rules."
- Rudy Rucker
(Related: Rules)
"I like to do things that are surprising and different."
- Rudy Rucker