Rudy Rucker Quotes

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• The study of infinity is much more than a dry academic game. The intellectual pursuit of the absolute infinity is, as Georg Cantor realized, a… Absolute
• 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
• Think of a field of daisies: they bloom, they wither, and in the spring they grow again. Who wants to see the same stupid daisy… Bloom
• 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… Been
• 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,… All
• The churning of a human mind is unpredictable, as is the anatomy of the human heart. Anatomy
• The world is magic. Science is but an insipid style of sorcery. Insipid
• A computation is a process that obeys finitely describable rules. Computation
• Computations are everywhere, once you begin to look at things in a certain way. Begin
• 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… Bang
• All living things are gnarly, in that they inevitably do things that are much more complex than one might have expected. All
• But how does it feel to plug into a system that's say, a million times as smart as a person. Doe
• Advice to beginning SF writers? Write a lot, finish what you write, and when it's done, keep sending it out for quite awhile. Advice
• 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… Any
• I like a book better if I can't predict what's going to happen. Better
• I like to do things that are surprising and different. Inspirational
• I think dry nanotechnology is probably a dead-end. Dead
• If all else fails, there's always print or web zines. All
• 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… Computation
• 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… Calm

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