When I see an old movie, like from the ’40s or ’50s or ’60s, the people look so calm. They don’t have smartphones, they’re not looking at computer screens, they’re taking their time. They’ll sit in a chair and just… — Rudy Rucker Copy Share Image
Computations are everywhere, once you begin to look at things in a certain way. — Rudy Rucker Copy Share Image
It's soothing to realize that my mind's processes are inherently uncontrollable. — Rudy Rucker Copy Share Image
All living things are gnarly, in that they inevitably do things that are much more complex than one might have expected. — Rudy Rucker Copy Share Image
Science fiction writers put characters into a world with arbitrary rules and work out what happens. — Rudy Rucker Copy Share Image
“Everything is cellular. Reality is cellular. I really love that word, cellular. Cellular phone, cellular foam, sleeper cell, cellulite, cellular automata . . .… — Rudy Rucker Copy Share Image
Some ideas you have to chew on, then roll them around a lot, play with them before you can turn them into funky science… — Rudy Rucker Copy Share Image
I am, as it were, an eye that the cosmos uses to look at itself. The Mind is not mine alone; the Mind is… — Rudy Rucker Copy Share Image
For me, the best thing about Cyberpunk is that it taught me how to enjoy shopping malls, which used to terrify me. Now I… — Rudy Rucker Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
If we suppose that many natural phenomena are in effect computations, the study of computer science can tell us about the kinds of natural… — Rudy Rucker Copy Share Image
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… — Rudy Rucker Copy Share Image
