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Rudy Rucker Quotes

Rudy Rucker quotes

American Scientist March 22, 1946

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If you think of your life as a kind of computation, it's quite abundantly clear that there's not going to be a final answer and there won't be anything particularly wonderful about having the computation halt! Rudy Rucker
Everything is cellular. Reality is cellular. I really love that word, cellular. Cellular phone, cellular foam, sleeper cell, cellulite, cellular automata . . . A cell can be anything! . . . It's cellular. It's quantum dots. It's quantum and cellular and bosonic. It's bosonic cellular quantum dottiness. With ribbons on." -- Jimmy Ganzer, 'Good Night, Moon Rudy Rucker
In principle you could hypertunnel from a Zone B world, but in practice you can’t get the tech together. The evil rays revel in chaotic class-three and class-four zones." --Rudy Rucker, story notes, Mathies in Love Rudy Rucker
Long live transfinite mountains, the hollow earth, time machines, fractal writing, aliens, dada, telepathy, flying saucers, warped space, teleportation, artificial reality, robots, pod people, hylozoism, endless shrinking, intelligent goo, antigravity, surrealism, software highs, two-dimensional time, gnarly computation, the art of photo composition, pleasure zappers, nanomachines, mind viruses, hyperspace, monsters from the deep and, of course, always and forever, the attack of the giant ants! Rudy Rucker
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 imagine the whole thing is two miles below the moon’s surface, and that half the people’s right-brains have been eaten by roboticized steel rats. And suddenly it’s interesting again. Rudy Rucker
The Pig Chef was - if you thought about it - one of the more sinister icons of American roadside art. Danny's personal totem. What kind of pig is a butcher? What kind of pig cooks barbeque? A traitor pig, a killer pig, a doomed preterite pig destined for eternal damnation. Danny's Pig Chefs showed the full weight of this knowledge in their mocking eyes and snaggled snouts. 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. Rudy Rucker
It's tedious to watch something very obvious being worked out, like a movie that's not particularly good and after about half an hour you know how it's going to end. Rudy Rucker
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 around. Rudy Rucker
Rudy Rucker quote: "Let the tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil fall, soundless..."
Let the tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil fall, soundless in the moldering woods. Rudy Rucker
Rudy Rucker quote: "But how does it feel to plug into a system that's say, a..."
But how does it feel to plug into a system that's say, a million times as smart as a person. Rudy Rucker
Rudy Rucker quote: "Now, being a science fiction writer, when I see a natural..."
Now, being a science fiction writer, when I see a natural principle, I wonder if it could fail. Rudy Rucker
Rudy Rucker quote: "In any case, A New Kind of Science is a wonderful book, and..."
In any case, A New Kind of Science is a wonderful book, and I'm still absorbing its teachings. Rudy Rucker
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, no matter how lonely, you are never really cut off from the whole. Rudy Rucker
Rudy Rucker quote: "One of the nice things about science fiction is that it lets..."
One of the nice things about science fiction is that it lets us carry out thought experiments. Rudy Rucker

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