Rudy Rucker Quotes

I enjoy creating new ideas, working on new creative projects.

The hardest thing is the idea. Ideas come from somewhere but as far as we know they come from nowhere.

I think we always move from imitation to assimilation to innovation, but I can't name you 20 people outside those we've already recognized who ever got to point three: innovation.

I have fun with ideas; I play with them.

A new idea is like carbonated liquid in a bottle. You just sort of shake it until the cork pops, then you write and write.

That's the buzz for me, the creative process. An idea is never as good as when it's in your head. And then it's just how little you ruin it.

There is no secret orchard where ideas grow. Oh my, do I wish there were.

One rule of invention: before you can invent it, you have to imagine it.

To me, ideas are like annoying salespeople that only go away once I've built them.

I'll stop when I run out of ideas.

Where do ideas come from? Ideas come from other ideas.

Isn't the drawing board the place where all the best work happens? It's not a bad thing to go back there. It's the entire point.

I'm not a craftsman of graphics or art or film. I'm more of an idea generator and manufacturer.

To create something new is both thrilling and excruciating at the same time. It's great to have all these choices in front of you, and to have the writers in the room so you know exactly what they meant. But the downside is you want so badly not to screw it up!

You can't buy something which does not exist. In a way, let's make things exist and then judge later. Don't cancel the process of creativity too early; let it flow.

Creativity comes from a conflict of ideas.

I have four or five ideas that just keep floating around and I want to kind of just let one - like a beautiful butterfly, let it land somewhere.

Everything begins with an idea.

Creativity is a spark. It can be excruciating when we're rubbing two rocks together and getting nothing. And it can be intensely satisfying when the flame catches and a new idea sweeps around the world.

I like the creative aspect of developing a project.

If you have the ideas, and you're a creative person, then you don't really differentiate in how your ideas manifest themselves.

If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.

I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else.

People seem to have trouble with the imagination. They can't believe that you can just pull things out of your brain like that.

The most exciting time is when I think of an idea and how I imagine I can make it. It would be wonderful if there was a projector inside my eye that and it could just put the idea on the screen for people to see.