Rudy Rucker quotes

Lately I've been working to convince myself that everything is a computation. (Rudy Rucker)
One of the nice things about science fiction is that it lets us carry out thought experiments. View quote
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Unfortunately our nation, nay, our world, is run by evil morons. View quote
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It's soothing to realize that my mind's processes are inherently uncontrollable. View quote
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Sybil had an unreal, larger-than-life feeling... as if she were a person in a book. View quote
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For whatever reason, we find it easier to "read" Hilbert Space patterns in terms of time. Yet the patterns exist outside of time. Thinking timelessly is not some unusual skill; when you remember last night's supper you sense a whole and not a chew-by-chew replay. To know a novel's action is to grasp the four-dimensional spacetime whole described. View quote
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A person's lifeworm is a tangle of atomic worldlines. A braid. The dotty little atoms trace out smooth lines in spacetime: you are the pattern that these lines make up. there is no one single atom that is exclusively yours. I breathe an atom out, you breathe it in. Your garbage helps my tomatoes grow. And so the little spacetime threads weave us all together. The human race is a single vast tapestry, linked by our shared food and air. There are larger links as well: sperm, egg and umblilicus. Each family tree is an organic whole. Your spacetime body tapers back to the threads of mother's egg and father's sperm. And children, if you have them, are forever rooted in your flesh. View quote
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At first the tumbling had me totally disoriented. With each degree that I turned, the images around me would deform and change. Three given blobs might split or merge to two or five, while some other shape's angular facets would sprout interlocking crystals. It was a little like trying to make out a human body by watching a Carousel slideshow of three hundred sixty microtomed cross sections. View quote
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Don't you think women would like a man's head that always listens to them and agrees? View quote
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Not only am I scared of big, strong men, I'm scared of mean little women. It's just little skinny men and nice big women that I get along with. View quote
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At the most elemental level, reality evanesces into something called Schröedinger's Wave Function: a mathematical abstraction which is best represented as a pattern in an infinite-dimensional space, Hilbert Space. Each point of the Hilbert Space represents a possible state of affairs. The wave function for some one physical or mental system takes the form of, let us say, a coloring in of Hilbert Space. The brightly colored parts represent likely states for the system, the dim parts represent less probable states of affairs. (Rudy Rucker)
I had formed a vague idea that the sex sphere was a hypersphere extending into the fourth dimension. Which meant that if the sphere's giant cunt swallowed me I could end up somewhere very... different. View quote
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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. View quote
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Although my mood swings were the logical and deterministic results of my inputs, they were dismayingly hard for me to foresee, let alone control. View quote
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People always have bad news for you when they call you "sir.”. View quote
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Mother Nature doesn't want power-tripping greedheads looking up her skirts. View quote
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The surest way to be unhappy is try to be happy all the time. View quote
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Anyone who'd volunteer for alien domination doesn't really deserve to have his or her freedom. View quote
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I've never seen a religion that wasn't basically evil. View quote
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I stared down at the object in my lap. A skin-colored sphere the size of a giant beach ball, with breasts on top and a mouth between the breasts. At the bottom were the generous buttocks, a crinkly anus and a vaginal passage containing my rapidly limpening penis. Was this safe? View quote
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The space of our universe is the hypersurface of a vast expanding hypersphere. (Rudy Rucker)
My real speciality is the mathematical analysis of Hilbert Space operators. But this was no time to come on like an ivory-tower idealist. View quote
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There are many possible realities, infinitely many. Yet most of them are not... alive. Most of them are like books that no one ever actually wrote. A group-mind, like humanity's, lights up one given world. What makes this world different from some ghostly alternative universe is that we actually live here. View quote
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It was funny. I knew I didn't want the bomb to be a success. But yet I'd spent so many years working around physics labs that I couldn't stand not to do it right. View quote
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Women care about specifics, about details. Men care about generalities, about abstract principles. View quote
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