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A source page for quotes linked to Rudy Rucker.
“A road's just an opinion about which way to go.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Lately I’ve been working to convince myself that everything is a computation.”
“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.”