Rudy Rucker Professions : Computer Scientist Born : March 22, 1946 Browse All Authors Top 40 quotes by 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 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. Rudy Rucker shopping moon two 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. Rudy Rucker smartphones garden thinking 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. Rudy Rucker inner-peace surfing dream A little-known truth: Every aspect of the world is fundamentally unpredictable. Computer scientists have long since proved this. Rudy Rucker littles long world A computation is a process that obeys finitely describable rules. Rudy Rucker computation process Lately I’ve been working to convince myself that everything is a computation. Rudy Rucker computation convince Unfortunately our nation, nay, our world, is run by evil morons. Rudy Rucker our-world evil running We're part of the unfolding world, surfing the chaotic waves Rudy Rucker wave surfing world Computations are everywhere, once you begin to look at things in a certain way. Rudy Rucker rude looks way 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. Rudy Rucker drawing teaching math 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? Rudy Rucker stupid spring thinking The world is magic. Science is but an insipid style of sorcery. Rudy Rucker sorcery magic style 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. Rudy Rucker cosmos eye mind 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 rude book fall I think dry nanotechnology is probably a dead-end. Rudy Rucker dead-ends dry thinking I like to do things that are surprising and different. Rudy Rucker surprising different I like a book better if I can't predict what's going to happen. Rudy Rucker ifs happens 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. Rudy Rucker bangs book thinking All living things are gnarly, in that they inevitably do things that are much more complex than one might have expected. Rudy Rucker gnarly expected might But how does it feel to plug into a system that's say, a million times as smart as a person. Rudy Rucker smart rude doe Similar Authors Bill Joy computer-scientist Butler Lampson computer-scientist Brian Reid computer-scientist Brian Kernighan computer-scientist Andrew S. Tanenbaum computer-scientist Andy Hertzfeld computer-scientist All Authors
