74 Quotes by Rudy Rucker

I like a book better if I can't predict what's going to happen.

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

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

Science fiction writers put characters into a world with arbitrary rules and work out what happens.

Selling a book or story has never become absolutely automatic for me.

The hard fact is that not everyone does get published.

Gnarly processes often display patterns at several scales. We find them fun to watch because they tend to appear as if they're alive.

Physical laws provide, at best, a recipe for how the world might be computed in parallel particle by particle and region by region.

People rarely write books that are that far out, so it might be interesting to try to write one, but no one will want to read it.