"What is the shape of space? Is it……" — Rudy Rucker
"What is the shape of space? Is it flat, or is it bent? Is it nicely laid out, or is it warped and shrunken? Is it finite, or is it infinite? Which of the following does space resemble more: (a) a sheet of paper, (b) an endless desert, (c) a soap bubble, (d) a doughnut, (e) an Escher drawing, (f) an ice cream cone, (g) the branches of a tree, or (h) a human body?"
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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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Intellectually, perspective [drawing] is a breakthrough, because here, for the first time, the physical space we live in is being…
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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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