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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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

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

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

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

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

Rudy Rucker

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

Traditional science is all about finding shortcuts.

Rudy Rucker

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

Rudy Rucker

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

Rudy Rucker

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

Rudy Rucker

Author Bio

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