Unfortunately our nation, nay, our world, is run by evil morons.
- Rudy Rucker
World, Nation, Morons, Our World
Advice to beginning SF writers? Write a lot, finish what you write, and when it's done, keep sending it out for quite awhile.
- Rudy Rucker
Beginning, Advice, Writers, SF
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
Book, More, Putting, Hardly
Now, being a science fiction writer, when I see a natural principle, I wonder if it could fail.
- Rudy Rucker
Natural, Fiction, Principle, Fiction Writer
I think dry nanotechnology is probably a dead-end.
- Rudy Rucker
Think, Dry, I Think, Nanotechnology
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
Play, Some, Before, Science Fiction
One of the nice things about science fiction is that it lets us carry out thought experiments.
- Rudy Rucker
Thought, Fiction, About, Science Fiction
Science fiction writers put characters into a world with arbitrary rules and work out what happens.
- Rudy Rucker
Fiction, Fiction Writers, Science Fiction
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
Think, Very, However, Lightweight
In any case, A New Kind of Science is a wonderful book, and I'm still absorbing its teachings.
- Rudy Rucker
New, Kind, Still, Teachings
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
Study, Natural, Occur, Phenomena
Lately I've been working to convince myself that everything is a computation.
- Rudy Rucker
Myself, Been, Convince, Lately
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
Think, Particularly, Having, Final Answer
It's soothing to realize that my mind's processes are inherently uncontrollable.
- Rudy Rucker
Mind, Processes, Soothing, Realize
The hard fact is that not everyone does get published.
- Rudy Rucker
Fact, Everyone, Does, Published
All living things are gnarly, in that they inevitably do things that are much more complex than one might have expected.
- Rudy Rucker
Living, More, Might, Inevitably
I like to do things that are surprising and different.
- Rudy Rucker
Different, Like, Things, Surprising
Selling a book or story has never become absolutely automatic for me.
- Rudy Rucker
Book, Never, Absolutely, Automatic
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
Very, Particularly, Half, Obvious
Traditional science is all about finding shortcuts.
- Rudy Rucker
Science, Shortcuts, About, Traditional
If all else fails, there's always print or web zines.
- Rudy Rucker
Always, Print, Else, Web
Computations are everywhere, once you begin to look at things in a certain way.
- Rudy Rucker
Once, Everywhere, Things, Certain Way
A computation is a process that obeys finitely describable rules.
- Rudy Rucker
Process, Computation, Rules
I like a book better if I can't predict what's going to happen.
- Rudy Rucker
Better, Happen, Like, Predict
But how does it feel to plug into a system that's say, a million times as smart as a person.
- Rudy Rucker
Smart, Say, Feel, Plug
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