Top 15 Rudy Rucker Quotes

It was odd, odd, odd to see people die. The world rolled on the same as before, as heedlessly as if a person were an ant or a wildflower or a puff of wind. Nature kept on making more and more of everything, and never mind that birth is a death sentence. And now that I’d been to La Hampa, I knew that creation was even more prodigal than I’d ever imagined. There were worlds upon worlds filled with people struggling and swarming like fretful gnats, all of them doomed to vanish into dust while the cosmic dance spun on.

In a sense mathematics is quite objective: the same deductions can become known to everyone who starts with the same axioms and definitions; the same abstract forms can be universally perceived. So it’s perfectly possible to talk math with a cockroach from Galaxy Z.

There’s only one way that people change the past, Bela. They stop thinking about it. They move on.

Although my mood swings were the logical and deterministic results of my inputs, they were dismayingly hard for me to foresee, let alone control.

Do you know computer science?"
"I know it's for lamers who can't handle real math.

People always have bad news for you when they call you “sir.”

Mother Nature doesn’t want power-tripping greedheads looking up her skirts.

My roommate says anyone who mails bombs to computer scientists can’t be all bad.

What's superspace?" I felt around for my body and couldn't find it.
"Thoughtland, Fletch, the cosmos. Pure mentation. Abstract possibility. Infinite dimensions. The class of all sets. God's mind. The pre-geometric substratum. Hilbert space. Penultimate reality. White..."
"Cut the crap, Harry.

The surest way to be unhappy is try to be happy all the time.

I'll wish for ten million more bucks while I'm at it."
"And immortality?"
"No, no. I don't want to live forever. Death's the only thing that keeps me going.

Anyone who’d volunteer for alien domination doesn’t really deserve to have his or her freedom.

It’s perfect, isn’t it? It just goes to show that everything I’ve ever said about religion is true. The sky’s the limit when it comes to religious stupidity. Here we have a race of alien invaders, and the evangelical true believers are flocking here to get taken over.

Now that's a fib, I know," said the black woman. "Is you folks preachers?

I’ve never seen a religion that wasn’t basically evil.