Rudy Rucker
Rudy Rucker
Rudolf von Bitter Ruckeris an American mathematician, computer scientist, science fiction author, and one of the founders of the cyberpunk literary movement. The author of both fiction and non-fiction, he is best known for the novels in the Ware Tetralogy, the first two of whichboth won Philip K. Dick Awards. Until its closure in 2014 he edited the science fiction webzine Flurb...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth22 March 1946
CountryUnited States of America
shortcuts findings traditional
Traditional science is all about finding shortcuts.
kind computer study
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.
god games goal
The study of infinity is much more than a dry academic game. The intellectual pursuit of the absolute infinity is, as Georg Cantor realized, a form of the soul's quest for God. Whether or not the goal is ever reached, an awareness of the process brings enlightenment.
math drawing space
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.
lonely cutting simple
The simple process of eating and breathing weave all of us together into a vast four-dimensional array. No matter how isolated you may sometimes feel, no matter how lonely, you are never really cut off from the whole.
heart mind unpredictable
The churning of a human mind is unpredictable, as is the anatomy of the human heart.
style magic world
The world is magic. Science is but an insipid style of sorcery.
process computation
A computation is a process that obeys finitely describable rules.
way looks certain
Computations are everywhere, once you begin to look at things in a certain way.
smart doe plugs
But how does it feel to plug into a system that's say, a million times as smart as a person.
gnarly might expected
All living things are gnarly, in that they inevitably do things that are much more complex than one might have expected.
machines body time-machine
Our bodies are the time machine.
fiction principles wonder
Now, being a science fiction writer, when I see a natural principle, I wonder if it could fail.
mind realizing process
It's soothing to realize that my mind's processes are inherently uncontrollable.