Rudy Rucker (born March 22, 1946) is an American computer scientist, mathematician, and science fiction author. He is considered one of the early pioneers of the cyberpunk literary movement, known for blending mathematics, computer science, and speculative fiction. Rucker taught mathematics and computer science at San Jose State University and has written popular science works such as Infinity and the Mind and Geometry, Relativity, and the Fourth Dimension. His science fiction novels, including Software, Wetware, and Freeware, explore themes of artificial intelligence, mind uploading, and virtual reality. Rucker's work is noted for its scientific rigor and imaginative storytelling, influencing later generations of science fiction writers.
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Source: Software
“A road's just an opinion about which way to go.”
Source: Million Mile Road Trip
“It's soothing to realize that my mind's processes are inherently uncontrollable.”
“Now, being a science fiction writer, when I see a natural principle, I wonder if it could fail.”
“Selling a book or story has never become absolutely automatic for me.”
Source: Mind Tools: The Five Levels of Mathematical Reality
“We're part of the unfolding world, surfing the chaotic waves”
“One of the nice things about science fiction is that it lets us carry out thought experiments.”
Source: Infinity and the Mind: The Science and Philosophy of the Infinite
Source: Mind Tools: The Five Levels of Mathematical Reality
“The churning of a human mind is unpredictable, as is the anatomy of the human heart.”
“The world is magic. Science is but an insipid style of sorcery.”
“A computation is a process that obeys finitely describable rules.”
“Computations are everywhere, once you begin to look at things in a certain way.”
Source: Seek!: Selected Nonfiction
“But how does it feel to plug into a system that's say, a million times as smart as a person.”
“I like a book better if I can't predict what's going to happen.”
Source: The Fourth Dimension: Toward a Geometry of Higher Reality
“Lately I’ve been working to convince myself that everything is a computation.”
Source: The Fourth Dimension: A Guided Tour of the Higher Universes
“Unfortunately our nation, nay, our world, is run by evil morons.”
“In any case, A New Kind of Science is a wonderful book, and I'm still absorbing its teachings.”