Rudy Rucker quotes - page 2

Amazing, the respect that nuclear weapons bring. (Rudy Rucker)

I'm not a brave man. My self-image is of a very small and weak person. In point of fact, I'm almost six feet, and solidly built. But I was a late bloomer. I spent those formative early high-school years as a pudgy little science whimp. I'm still scared of big men with deep voices.

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This is just so typical of you, Alwin, to be in love with a giant ass.

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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.

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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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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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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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The hard fact is that not everyone does get published.

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

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

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Selling a book or story has never become absolutely automatic for me. (Rudy Rucker)

I think dry nanotechnology is probably a dead-end.

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A computation is a process that obeys finitely describable rules.

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I like to do things that are surprising and different.

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

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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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Traditional science is all about finding shortcuts.

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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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But after a while, some higher brain-center cut in, and I began being mentally able to fit the wildly changing scenery into a coherent four-dimensional whole. The process was really no more devious than the process by which one integrates the two hundred lines of a TV screen into a single two-dimensional image... which in turn is interpreted as a three-dimensional scene. It's just a matter of processing information. Impossible? I saw.

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The fifties were supposed to be a golden age when the pig had everything his way. That's what TV and the government wants us to believe: there was a time when no one made trouble. What about Kerouac, you assholes? What about Neal? (Rudy Rucker)

The matter of color is more confusing. Not every property of a system can be stated as a definite spatio-temporal state of affairs. A system's tendency, for instance, to move from State A to State B, but not from State B to State A... a tendency like this is not any specific event which you can point to in space and time. These nonspecific properties correspond to overall gestalts in the Hilbert Space coloring. Alternating bands of red and green light might, for example, represent a particle which is moving from left to right but which has no specific location. A good mood could be a golden haze not tied to any particular cause.

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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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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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