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

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

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

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

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

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

“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

“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

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

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

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

“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

“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

“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

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

“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

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

“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

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

“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 can’t say,” replied Gordo. “Remember, I only joined your team after the Patel incident.” “I wish you’d stop bitching about ‘the Patel incident.’” “Look,” said Gordo, “you can’t just morph a federal scientist into a giant invertebrate that catches fire. That’s not an acceptable protocol.”
― Rudy Rucker, Loco

“When it's my time to die, I'm going to be the one doing it. So as long as I'm alive, you let me live my way.”
― Rudy Rucker, Software

“IS THIS ALL THERE IS? Struggle, loneliness, disease, and death … Is this all there is? Life can seem so chaotic, so dreary, so grindingly hard. Who among us has not dreamt of some higher reality, some transcendent level of meaning and peace? There actually is such a higher reality … And it is not so very hard to reach. For many, the fourth dimension has served as a gateway into it. But what is the fourth dimension?”
― Rudy Rucker, The Fourth Dimension: Toward a Geometry of Higher Reality

“my favorite Zen saying,” said Dee. “Once you’re born, the worst has already happened.”
― Rudy Rucker, The Secret of Life

“life’s a deep gloom ocean and we’re lit-up funfish of dementional zaazz,”
― Rudy Rucker, The Ware Tetralogy