Rudy Rucker

“But how does it feel to plug into a system that's say, a million times as smart as a person.”

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

“Traditional science is all about finding shortcuts.”

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

“I like a book better if I can't predict what's going to happen.”

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

“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.”

“Advice to beginning SF writers? Write a lot, finish what you write, and when it's done, keep sending it out for quite awhile.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“I think dry nanotechnology is probably a dead-end.”

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

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

“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!”

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

“All living things are gnarly, in that they inevitably do things that are much more complex than one might have expected.”

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

“A computation is a process that obeys finitely describable rules.”

“It's soothing to realize that my mind's processes are inherently uncontrollable.”