Rudy Rucker Quotes

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

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

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• Traditional science is all about finding shortcuts.

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

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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.

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

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

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

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

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

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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.

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

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

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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!

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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.

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

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

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

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

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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.

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Rudy Rucker (26)

Birth:	22nd March, 1946
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Author, Mathematician, Philosopher

About

Rudolf von Bitter Rucker is an American mathematician, computer scientist, science fiction author, and philosopher, and is one of the founders of the cyberpunk literary movement. The author of both fiction and non-fiction, he is best known for the novels in the Ware Tetralogy, the first two of which both won Philip K. Dick Awards. At present he edits the science fiction webzine Flurb.

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