Rudy Rucker Quotes

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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 just pretend that 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.

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  Moon, Shopping, Two

  "What Is Cyberpunk?". www.rudyrucker.com. February, 1986.

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• It's a waste to chase the pipe dream of a magical tiny theory that allows us to make quick and detailed calculations about the future. We can't predict and we can't control. To accept this can be a source of liberation and inner peace. We're part of the unfolding world, surfing the chaotic waves.

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  Dream, Inner Peace, Surfing

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• We're part of the unfolding world, surfing the chaotic waves

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  Surfing, World, Wave

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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 everywhere.

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  Eye, Mind, Cosmos

  Rudy Rucker (2014). “The Fourth Dimension: Toward a Geometry of Higher Reality”, p.147, Courier Corporation

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• A little-known truth: Every aspect of the world is fundamentally unpredictable. Computer scientists have long since proved this.

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  Long, World, Littles

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

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  Magic, Style, Sorcery

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• When I see an old movie, like from the ’40s or ’50s or ’60s, the people look so calm. They don’t have smartphones, they’re not looking at computer screens, they’re taking their time. They’ll sit in a chair and just stare off into space. I think some day we’ll find our way back to that garden of Eden.

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  Garden, Thinking, Smartphones

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

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  Heart, Mind, Unpredictable

  "Turing & Burroughs". Book by Rudy Rucker, www.rudyrucker.com. 2012.

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• 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.

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  Watches, Half, Hours

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• The study of infinity is much more than a dry academic game. The intellectual pursuit of the absolute infinity is, as Georg Cantor realized, a form of the soul's quest for God. Whether or not the goal is ever reached, an awareness of the process brings enlightenment.

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  God, Education, Math

  Rudy Rucker (2013). “Infinity and the Mind: The Science and Philosophy of the Infinite”, p.19, Princeton University Press

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

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  Rude, Looks, Way

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

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  Computation, Convince

  "Adventures In Gnarly Computation". www.rudyrucker.com. October 2005.

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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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  Gnarly, Might, Expected

  Rudy Rucker (1999). “Seek!: Selected Nonfiction”, p.92, Running Press

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• Unfortunately our nation, nay, our world, is run by evil morons.

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  Running, Our World, Evil

  Interview with Giulio Prisco, giulioprisco.blogspot.ru. November 2, 2002.

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• A computation is a process that obeys finitely describable rules.

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  Process, Computation

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• The world is colors and motion, feelings and thoughts and what does math have to do with it? Not much, if 'math' means being bored in high school, but in truth mathematics is the one universal science. Mathematics is the study of pure pattern and everything in the cosmos is a kind of pattern.

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  School, Mean, Math

  Rudy Rucker (2013). “Mind Tools: The Five Levels of Mathematical Reality”, p.3, Courier Corporation

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• 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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  Teaching, Math, Drawing

  Rudy Rucker (2013). “Mind Tools: The Five Levels of Mathematical Reality”, p.273, Courier Corporation

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• 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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  Science, Drawing, Space

  Rudy von Bitter Rucker, Rudy Rucker (1985). “The Fourth Dimension: A Guided Tour of the Higher Universes”, p.91, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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

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  Character, Work Out, Rude

  "Adventures In Gnarly Computation". www.rudyrucker.com. October 2005.

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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!

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  Thinking, Finals, Answers

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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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  Smart, Rude, Doe

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• Think of a field of daisies: they bloom, they wither, and in the spring they grow again. Who wants to see the same stupid daisy year after year, especially with a bunch of crappy iron-lung-type equipment bolted to it?

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  Spring, Stupid, Thinking

  Interview with Giulio Prisco, turingchurch.com. August 2002.

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

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  Nice, Rude, Fiction

  "Collected Essays". Book by Rudy Rucker, www.rudyrucker.com. April, 2012.

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• 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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  Study, Kind, Computer

  "Adventures In Gnarly Computation". www.rudyrucker.com. October 2005.

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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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  Writing, Rude, Advice

  Interview with Giulio Prisco, giulioprisco.blogspot.ru. August 27, 2002.

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