Quotes by Rudy Rucker

About Rudy Rucker:

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 (Software and Wetware) both won Philip K. Dick Awards. At present he edits the science fiction webzine Flurb.
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Let the tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil fall, soundless in the moldering woods.

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The churning of a human mind is unpredictable, as is the anatomy of the human heart.

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

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The hard fact is that not everyone does get published.

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Advice to beginning SF writers? Write a lot, finish what you write, and when it's done, keep sending it out for quite awhile.

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

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But how does it feel to plug into a system that's say, a million times as smart as a person.

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

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Computations are everywhere, once you begin to look at things in a certain way.

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A computation is a process that obeys finitely describable rules.

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All living things are gnarly, in that they inevitably do things that are much more complex than one might have expected.

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

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The simple process of eating and breathing weave all of us together into a vast four-dimensional array. No matter how isolated you may sometimes feel, no matter how lonely, you are never really cut off from the whole.

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We're presently in the midst of a third intellectual revolution. The first came with Newton: the planets obey physical laws. The second came with Darwin: biology obeys genetic laws. In today’s third revolution, were coming to realize that even mind...

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For me, the best thing about Cyberpunk is that it taught me how to enjoy shopping malls, which used to terrify me. Now I just imagine the whole thing is two miles below the moon’s surface, and that half the people’s right-brains have been eaten b...

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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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Author Bio

  • NameRudy Rucker
  • DescriptionAmerican mathematician, computer scientist, science fiction author and philosopher
  • BornMarch 22, 1946
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionMathematician; Author; Novelist