Rudy Rucker > Quotes

“For me, the best thing about Cyberpunk is that it taught me how to enjoy shopping malls, which used to terrify me. Now I just imagine the whole thing is two miles below the moon’s surface, and that half the people’s right-brains have been eaten by roboticized steel rats. And suddenly it’s interesting again.”
― Rudy Rucker

“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.”
― Rudy Rucker

“Even if we become glowing clouds of ectoplasm, there's going to be something we're competing for - and most of us will feel as though we're getting screwed.”
― Rudy Rucker, Year Million: Science at the Far Edge of Knowledge

“I think you should kill him and eat his brain," Mr. Frostee said quickly.

That's not the answer to every problem in interpersonal relations," Cobb said, hopping out.”
― Rudy Rucker, Software

“We're presently in the midst of a third intellectual revolution. The first came with Newton: the planets obey physical laws. The second came with Darwin: biology obeys genetic laws. In today’s third revolution, were coming to realize that even minds and societies emerge from interacting laws that can be regarded as computations. Everything is a computation.”
― Rudy Rucker

“No one can point to the fourth dimension, yet it is all around us.”
― Rudy Rucker

“The world is magic. Science is but an insipid style of sorcery.”
― Rudy Rucker, Turing & Burroughs

“America isn't young, you know. It's ancient and evil. With aluminum siding.”
― Rudy Rucker, Turing & Burroughs

“Long live transfinite mountains, the hollow earth, time machines, fractal writing, aliens, dada, telepathy, flying saucers, warped space, teleportation, artificial reality, robots, pod people, hylozoism, endless shrinking, intelligent goo, antigravity, surrealism, software highs, two-dimensional time, gnarly computation, the art of photo composition, pleasure zappers, nanomachines, mind viruses, hyperspace, monsters from the deep and, of course, always and forever, the attack of the giant ants!”
― Rudy Rucker

“I am, as it were, an eye that the cosmos uses to look at itself.”
― Rudy Rucker, The Fourth Dimension: A Guided Tour of the Higher Universes

“Somehow I fell asleep in the graveyard.”
― Rudy Rucker

“The churning of a human mind is unpredictable, as is the anatomy of the human heart.”
― Rudy Rucker, Turing & Burroughs

“The basic idea is simple: All is One. Different religions just find different ways of expressing this universal truth.”
― Rudy Rucker, The Ware Tetralogy

“There are no normal people—just look at your relatives,”
― Rudy Rucker, The Secret of Life

“The Pig Chef was - if you thought about it - one of the more sinister icons of American roadside art. Danny's personal totem. What kind of pig is a butcher? What kind of pig cooks barbeque? A traitor pig, a killer pig, a doomed preterite pig destined for eternal damnation. Danny's Pig Chefs showed the full weight of this knowledge in their mocking eyes and snaggled snouts.”
― Rudy Rucker, Mad Professor: The Uncollected Short Stories of Rudy Rucker

“Let the tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil fall, soundless in the moldering woods.”
― Rudy Rucker, Turing & Burroughs

“Death is simple, but my evasions are complex.”
― Rudy Rucker

“In principle you could hypertunnel from a Zone B world, but in practice you
can’t get the tech together. The evil rays revel in chaotic class-three
and class-four zones."

--Rudy Rucker, story notes, Mathies in Love”
― Rudy Rucker

“But Onar turned out to be a poor lover, certainly the worst of Yoke’s
few partners thus far. Onar stinted on the foreplay, made a long messy
fuss of his prophylactic preparations, and was up for at most sixty
seconds of actual coitus. As a final turn-off, Onar said something British
when he came, something like “Cor blimey,” or “Top drawer,” or “Bit of
all right”— Yoke’s outraged brain disdained to retain the phrase.”
― Rudy Rucker, Realware

“Everything is cellular. Reality is cellular. I really love that word, cellular. Cellular phone, cellular foam, sleeper cell, cellulite, cellular automata . . . A cell can be anything! . . . It's cellular. It's quantum dots. It's quantum and cellular and bosonic. It's bosonic cellular quantum dottiness. With ribbons on." -- Jimmy Ganzer, 'Good Night, Moon”
― Rudy Rucker

“This is like the joke where the guy climbs the mountain and asks the guru, 'What is the secret of life?,' and the guru says, 'All is One,' and the guys says, 'Are you kidding?,' and the guru says, 'You mean it isn't?”
― Rudy Rucker, The Ware Tetralogy

“A day, whether six or seven ago, or more than six thousand years ago, is just as near to the present as yesterday. Why? Because all time is contained in the present Now-moment.”
― Rudy Rucker, The Fourth Dimension: A Guided Tour of the Higher Universes

“Once you’re born, the worst has already happened.”
― Rudy Rucker, Complete Stories

“As Aquinas, the quintessential theologian, says: “The notion of form is most fully realized in existence itself. And in God existence is not acquired by anything, but God is existence itself subsistent. It is clear, then, that God himself is both limitless and perfect.”28”
― Rudy Rucker, Infinity and the Mind: The Science and Philosophy of the Infinite

“I was strange to keep waking up in the morning feeling good.”
― Rudy Rucker, The Ware Tetralogy

“That was my big realization twenty years ago. It all passes. Here I am at the bathroom door, and how can I ever get to the sink? How can high school ever end, how can I ever finish college, how can I ever be married? But then I’m at the sink, I’m back out the door, I have a Ph.D., I’m married with three kids, and twenty years have passed. Here I am alive, and how can I ever die? But I will, I know I will, I know it in my soul.”
― Rudy Rucker, The Fourth Dimension: A Guided Tour of the Higher Universes

“I am indeed a kind of alien," siad Momo. "Your legends do not entirely miss the mark. We do have ray guns and flying saucers. But my homeland is not one of your space's planets. I'm from the All, Joe Cube. A world of four dimensions. I climbed down through a tunnel to get to Spaceland- to your world. Spaceland lies in an endless cavern like a strange, subterranean sea. Spaceland very nearly lacks a fourth dimension; it extends less than a nanometer in the direction of your vinn and vout- which actually point in the direction of our up and down. Spaceland appears to us as something like a rug- but unlike a rug, Spsaceland is cunningly filled with motion and life. It seems the Creator put Spaceland in place to separate the All in two. My people the Kluppers, live up above it, and another fold called the Dronners live down below. They are our enemies, hidden below Spaceland.” Momo paused, as if agitated by the thought of the Dronners. “You’ll turn the tide against them Joe.”
― Rudy Rucker, Spaceland

“I am indeed a kind of alien," siad Momo. "Your legends do not entirely miss the mark. We do have ray guns and flying saucers. But my homeland is not one of your space's planets. I'm from the All, Joe Cube. A world of four dimensions. I climbed down through a tunnel to get to Spaceland- to your world. Spaceland lies in an endless cavern like a strange, subterranean sea. Spaceland very nearly lacks a fourth dimension; it extends less than a nanometer in the direction of your vinn and vout- which actually point in the direction of our up and down. Spaceland appears to us as something like a rug- but unlike a rug, Spsaceland is cunningly filled with motion and life. It seems the Creator put Spaceland in place to separate the All in two. My people the Kluppers, live up above it, and another folk called the Dronners live down below. They are our enemies, hidden below Spaceland.” Momo paused, as if agitated by the thought of the Dronners. “You’ll turn the tide against them Joe.”
― Rudy Rucker

“We talked a little set theory, and then I asked him my last question: “What causes the illusion of the passage of time?”
Gödel spoke not directly to this question, but to the question of what my question meant — that is, why anyone would even believe that there is a perceived passage of time at all.
He went on to relate the getting rid of belief in the passage of time to the struggle to experience the One Mind of mysticism. Finally he said this: “The illusion of the passage of time arises from confusing the given with the real. Passage of time arises because we think of occupying different realities. In fact, we occupy only different givens. There is only one reality.”
― Rudy Rucker, The Fourth Dimension: A Guided Tour of the Higher Universes

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― Rudy Rucker, The Ware Tetralogy