Quotes by Rudy Rucker

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