Rudy Rucker Quotes

The computing world is very good at things that we are not. It is very good at memory.

No more than these machines need the mathematician know what he does.

The purpose of computing is insight, not numbers.

Computer science inverts the normal. In normal science, you're given a world, and your job is to find out the rules. In computer science, you give the computer the rules, and it creates the world.

I grew up as a computer scientist, and I've always been fascinated by algorithms.

We need a lot more technically literate people. The computers are the tools that are going to solve essentially all problems, and the people who can use them better will be more effective.

Formula creation is magnitudes harder for computer algorithms than actually executing within a formula. But once the genre is created and the formula is known, then the computer can do the repetitive task of executing within the genre.

I got interested in computers and how they could be enslaved to the megalomaniac impulses of a teenager.

I thank God for not making me a computer scientist.

It takes these very simple-minded instructions - 'Go fetch a number, add it to this number, put the result there, perceive if it's greater than this other number' - but executes them at a rate of, let's say, 1,000,000 per second. At 1,000,000 per second, the results appear to be magic.

Computers, like automobiles and airplanes, do only what people tell them to do.

An algorithm must be seen to be believed.

If you want to solve very complex problems, you will have to end up letting machines work out a lot of the details for themselves, and in ways that we don't understand what they are doing.

I just write mechanical things.

They were saying computers deal with numbers. This was absolutely nonsense. Computers deal with arbitrary information of any kind.

The computer is not, in our opinion, a good model of the mind, but it is as the trumpet is to the orchestra - you really need it. And so, we have very massive simulations in computers because the problem is, of course, very complex.

If the clockwork universe equated the human body with the mechanics of the clock, the digital universe now equates human consciousness with the processing of the computer. We joke that things don't compute, that we need a reboot, or that our memory has been wiped.

Google is already overflowing with incredibly creative bright groups already working on lots of the software problems of the world.

Intelligence is the faculty of making artificial objects, especially tools to make tools.

I don't think there's anything unique about human intelligence.

Computers have proved to be formidable chess players. In fact, they've beaten our top human chess champions.

I think computer science, by and large, is still stuck in the Modern age.

It is nice to know that the computer understands the problem. But I would like to understand it too.

There will always be plenty of things to compute in the detailed affairs of millions of people doing complicated things.

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