Rudy Rucker

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.

I like to do things that are surprising and different.

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.

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.

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!

All living things are gnarly, in that they inevitably do things that are much more complex than one might have expected.

Traditional science is all about finding shortcuts.

Advice to beginning SF writers? Write a lot, finish what you write, and when it's done, keep sending it out for quite awhile.

Now, being a science fiction writer, when I see a natural principle, I wonder if it could fail.

In any case, A New Kind of Science is a wonderful book, and I'm still absorbing its teachings.

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.

But how does it feel to plug into a system that's say, a million times as smart as a person.