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Rudy Rucker [1946-0] American

Rank: 104
Scientist, Computer scientist

Rudolf von Bitter Rucker is an American mathematician, computer scientist, science fiction author, and one of the founders of the cyberpunk literary movement.

Science

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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.		101
It's soothing to realize that my mind's processes are inherently uncontrollable.		102
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.	Science	103
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.		104
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.	Science	105
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.		106
Unfortunately our nation, nay, our world, is run by evil morons.		107
Lately I've been working to convince myself that everything is a computation.		108
One of the nice things about science fiction is that it lets us carry out thought experiments.		109
I like to do things that are surprising and different.		110
If all else fails, there's always print or web zines.		111
I think dry nanotechnology is probably a dead-end.		112
But how does it feel to plug into a system that's say, a million times as smart as a person.		113
A computation is a process that obeys finitely describable rules.		114
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!		115
Traditional science is all about finding shortcuts.		116
I like a book better if I can't predict what's going to happen.		117
Selling a book or story has never become absolutely automatic for me.		118
The hard fact is that not everyone does get published.		119
Advice to beginning SF writers? Write a lot, finish what you write, and when it's done, keep sending it out for quite awhile.		120
In any case, A New Kind of Science is a wonderful book, and I'm still absorbing its teachings.		121
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.		122
Computations are everywhere, once you begin to look at things in a certain way.		123
Science fiction writers put characters into a world with arbitrary rules and work out what happens.		124
Now, being a science fiction writer, when I see a natural principle, I wonder if it could fail.		125

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