Some ideas you have to chew on, then roll them around a lot, play with them before you can turn them into funky science fiction.
Rudy RuckerOne of the nice things about science fiction is that it lets us carry out thought experiments.
Rudy RuckerIntellectually, perspective [drawing] is a breakthrough, because here, for the first time, the physical space we live in is being depicted as ifit were an abstract, mathematical space. A less obvious innovation due to perspective is that here, for the first time, people are actually drawing pictures of infinities.
Rudy Rucker