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Rudy Rucker Quotes

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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.  (Rudy Rucker Quotes) Intellectually, perspective [drawing] is a breakthrough, because here, for the first time, the physical space we live in is being depicted as ifit were an abstract, mathematical space. A less obvious innovation due to perspective is that here, for the first time, people are actually drawing pictures of infinities  (Rudy Rucker Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) The churning of a human mind is unpredictable, as is the anatomy of the human heart  (Rudy Rucker Quotes) One of the nice things about science fiction is that it lets us carry out thought experiments  (Rudy Rucker Quotes) We’re part of the unfolding world, surfing the chaotic waves  (Rudy Rucker Quotes) The world is magic. Science is but an insipid style of sorcery  (Rudy Rucker Quotes) Computations are everywhere, once you begin to look at things in a certain way  (Rudy Rucker Quotes) Unfortunately our nation, nay, our world, is run by evil morons  (Rudy Rucker Quotes) The hard fact is that not everyone does get published  (Rudy Rucker Quotes) Selling a book or story has never become absolutely automatic for me  (Rudy Rucker Quotes) If all else fails, there’s always print or web zines  (Rudy Rucker Quotes) I like to do things that are surprising and different  (Rudy Rucker Quotes) A computation is a process that obeys finitely describable rules  (Rudy Rucker Quotes) Now, being a science fiction writer, when I see a natural principle, I wonder if it could fail  (Rudy Rucker Quotes) It’s a waste to chase the pipe dream of a magical tiny theory that allows us to make quick and detailed calculations about the future. We can’t predict and we can’t control. To accept this can be a source of liberation and inner peace. We’re part of the unfolding world, surfing the chaotic waves  (Rudy Rucker Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) But how does it feel to plug into a system that’s say, a million times as smart as a person  (Rudy Rucker Quotes) I like a book better if I can’t predict what’s going to happen  (Rudy Rucker Quotes) All living things are gnarly, in that they inevitably do things that are much more complex than one might have expected  (Rudy Rucker Quotes) 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 Quotes) Science fiction writers put characters into a world with arbitrary rules and work out what happens  (Rudy Rucker Quotes) 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 Quotes)