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All living things are gnarly,...

All living things are gnarly, in that they inevitably do things that are much more complex than one might have expected.

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Unfortunately our nation, nay...

Unfortunately our nation, nay, our world, is run by evil morons.

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If you think of your life as ...

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 42 quotes

Lately I've been working to c...

Lately I've been working to convince myself that everything is a computation.

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Science fiction writers put c...

Science fiction writers put characters into a world with arbitrary rules and work out what happens.

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Some ideas you have to chew on...

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.

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One of the nice things about s...

One of the nice things about science fiction is that it lets us carry out thought experiments.

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Electronic distribution is mor...

Electronic distribution is more of a fall-back strategy for putting out a book that isn't deemed profitable enough to print. You hardly make any money publishing an electronic book.

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I like a book better if I can'...

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

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Advice to beginning SF writers...

Advice to beginning SF writers? Write a lot, finish what you write, and when it's done, keep sending it out for quite awhile.

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But how does it feel to plug i...

But how does it feel to plug into a system that's say, a million times as smart as a person.

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All living things are gnarly, ...

All living things are gnarly, in that they inevitably do things that are much more complex than one might have expected.

Rudy Rucker 42 quotes

At present, however, I don't t...

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 Rucker 42 quotes

Computations are everywhere, o...

Computations are everywhere, once you begin to look at things in a certain way.

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A computation is a process tha...

A computation is a process that obeys finitely describable rules.

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The world is magic. Science is...

The world is magic. Science is but an insipid style of sorcery.

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The churning of a human mind i...

The churning of a human mind is unpredictable, as is the anatomy of the human heart.

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The simple process of eating a...

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.

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For me, the best thing about C...

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.

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It's tedious to watch somethin...

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 42 quotes

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Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

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Расскажем, как сложилась судьба актеров, которые начинали сниматься еще в детстве.
Остаться на вершине в Голливуде удаётся не каждому, особенно если путь начался в детстве. Одни актёры теряются из-за...

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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....