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.
Rudy Rucker

The hard fact is that not everyone does get published.
Rudy Rucker

I like to do things that are surprising and different.
Rudy Rucker

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

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.
Rudy Rucker

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!
Rudy Rucker

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