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Rudy Rucker
Profession : Scientist
Birth : March 22, 1946
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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.
Rudy Rucker
I think dry nanotechnology is probably a dead-end.
Rudy Rucker
Unfortunately our nation, nay, our world, is run by evil morons.
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Now, being a science fiction writer, when I see a natural principle, I wonder if it could fail.
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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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All living things are gnarly, in that they inevitably do things that are much more complex than one might have expected.
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
I like to do things that are surprising and different.
Rudy Rucker
I like a book better if I can't predict what's going to happen.
Rudy Rucker
Selling a book or story has never become absolutely automatic for me.
Rudy Rucker
The hard fact is that not everyone does get published.
Rudy Rucker
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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If all else fails, there's always print or web zines.
Rudy Rucker
In any case, A New Kind of Science is a wonderful book, and I'm still absorbing its teachings.
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
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.
Rudy Rucker
Lately I've been working to convince myself that everything is a computation.
Rudy Rucker
A computation is a process that obeys finitely describable rules.
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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
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
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