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.
Rudy RuckerFor me, the best thing about cyberpunk is that it taught me how to enjoy shopping malls, which used to terrify me. Now I just pretend that the whole thing is two miles below the moonโs surface, and that half the peopleโs right-brains have been eaten by roboticized steel rats. And suddenly itโs interesting again.
Rudy RuckerIn any case, A New Kind of Science is a wonderful book, and I'm still absorbing its teachings.
Rudy RuckerScience fiction writers put characters into a world with arbitrary rules and work out what happens.
Rudy RuckerIt's a waste to chase the pipe dream of a magical tiny theory that allows us to make quick and detailed calculations about the future. We can't predict and we can't control. To accept this can be a source of liberation and inner peace. We're part of the unfolding world, surfing the chaotic waves.
Rudy Rucker