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
character work-out rude
Science fiction writers put characters into a world with arbitrary rules and work out what happens.
half watches hours
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.
shortcuts findings traditional
Traditional science is all about finding shortcuts.
facts doe hard
The hard fact is that not everyone does get published.
book stories selling
Selling a book or story has never become absolutely automatic for me.
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.
school mean math
The world is colors and motion, feelings and thoughts and what does math have to do with it? Not much, if 'math' means being bored in high school, but in truth mathematics is the one universal science. Mathematics is the study of pure pattern and everything in the cosmos is a kind of pattern.
thinking finals answers
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!
teaching book rude
In any case, A New Kind of Science is a wonderful book, and I'm still absorbing its teachings.
book thinking bangs
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.
way looks certain
Computations are everywhere, once you begin to look at things in a certain way.
process computation
A computation is a process that obeys finitely describable rules.
heart mind unpredictable
The churning of a human mind is unpredictable, as is the anatomy of the human heart.