"Intellectually, perspective [drawing] is a breakthrough, because here,……" — Rudy Rucker
"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, mathematical space. A less obvious innovation due to perspective is that here, for the first time, people are actually drawing pictures of infinities."
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Rudy Rucker
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37 Quotes by Rudy Rucker
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The study of infinity is much more than a dry academic game. The intellectual pursuit of the absolute infinity is,…
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Think of a field of daisies: they bloom, they wither, and in the spring they grow again. Who wants to…
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For me, the best thing about Cyberpunk is that it taught me how to enjoy shopping malls, which used to…
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The simple process of eating and breathing weave all of us together into a vast four-dimensional array. No matter how…
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The churning of a human mind is unpredictable, as is the anatomy of the human heart.
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The world is magic. Science is but an insipid style of sorcery.
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A computation is a process that obeys finitely describable rules.
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Computations are everywhere, once you begin to look at things in a certain way.
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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…
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All living things are gnarly, in that they inevitably do things that are much more complex than one might have…
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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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Advice to beginning SF writers? Write a lot, finish what you write, and when it's done, keep sending it out…
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More Abstract Quotes
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To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought.
— Honore de Balzac
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I was a really lousy artist as a kid. Too abstract expressionist; or I'd draw a big ram's head, really…
— Jean-Michel Basquiat
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In the abstract conception of universal wrong, all concrete responsibility vanishes.
— Theodor Adorno
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None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace.
— Theodor Adorno
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Good science fiction is intelligent. It asks big questions that are on people's minds. It's not impossible. It has some…
— Nicolas Cage
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Science fiction is a way that I can go into the abstract, go into the imagination, and audiences are still…
— Nicolas Cage
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I am searching for abstract ways of expressing reality, abstract forms that will enlighten my own mystery.
— Eric Cantona
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Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
— Al Capp
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Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change…
— Saul Alinsky
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'Woman on the Plaza,' with its distinct horizon, snow-like surfaces, wintry wall, stunning sunlight, sharp shadows, and hurrying figure, would…
— Sam Abell
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Old ideas give way slowly; for they are more than abstract logical forms and categories. They are habits, predispositions, deeply…
— John Dewey
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It is difficult to talk about fashion in the abstract, without a human body before my eyes, without drawings, without…
— Giorgio Armani
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