Computation Quote by 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.”

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

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

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I think dry nanotechnology is probably a dead-end.

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I am, as it were, an eye that the cosmos uses to look at itself. The Mind is not mine alone; the Mind is…

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“No one can point to the fourth dimension, yet it is all around us.”

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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…

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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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Traditional science is all about finding shortcuts.

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