Quotes from Rudy Rucker

Selling a book or story has never become absolutely automatic for me.

I like to do things that are surprising and different.

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 publishing an electronic book.

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.

Computations are everywhere, once you begin to look at things in a certain way.

A computation is a process that obeys finitely describable rules.

If all else fails, there's always print or web zines.

Lately I've been working to convince myself that everything is a computation.

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.

The world is magic. Science is but an insipid style of sorcery.

Traditional science is all about finding shortcuts.

Now, being a science fiction writer, when I see a natural principle, I wonder if it could fail.

In any case, A New Kind of Science is a wonderful book, and I'm still absorbing its teachings.

The hard fact is that not everyone does get published.

Some ideas you have to chew on, then roll them around a lot, play with them before you can turn them into funky science fiction.

One of the nice things about science fiction is that it lets us carry out thought experiments.

Some ideas you have to chew on, then roll them around a lot, play with them before you can turn them into funky science fiction.

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.

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.

Even if we become glowing clouds of ectoplasm, there's going to be something we're competing for - and most of us will feel as though we're getting screwed.

We're presently in the midst of a third intellectual revolution. The first came with Newton: the planets obey physical laws. The second came with Darwin: biology obeys genetic laws. In today's third revolution, were coming to realize that even minds and societies emerge from interacting laws that can be regarded as computations. Everything is a computation .

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

America isn't young, you know. It's ancient and evil. With aluminum siding.

The churning of a human mind is unpredictable, as is the anatomy of the human heart.