Rudy Rucker: Quotes about time

Rudy Rucker is American mathematician, computer scientist, science fiction author and philosopher. Explore interesting quotes on time.

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“For whatever reason, we find it easier to "read" Hilbert Space patterns in terms of time. Yet the patterns exist outside of time. Thinking timelessly is not some unusual skill; when you remember last night's supper you sense a whole and not a chew-by-chew replay. To know a novel's action is to grasp the four-dimensional spacetime whole described.”

Source: The Sex Sphere (1983), p. 135

“My real speciality is the mathematical analysis of Hilbert Space operators. But this was no time to come on like an ivory-tower idealist.”

Source: The Sex Sphere (1983), p. 18

“The fifties were supposed to be a golden age when the pig had everything his way. That's what TV and the government wants us to believe: there was a time when no one made trouble. What about Kerouac, you assholes? What about Neal?”

Source: The Sex Sphere (1983), p. 130

“The matter of color is more confusing. Not every property of a system can be stated as a definite spatio-temporal state of affairs. A system's tendency, for instance, to move from State A to State B, but not from State B to State A... a tendency like this is not any specific event which you can point to in space and time. These nonspecific properties correspond to overall gestalts in the Hilbert Space coloring. Alternating bands of red and green light might, for example, represent a particle which is moving from left to right but which has no specific location. A good mood could be a golden haze not tied to any particular cause.”

Source: The Sex Sphere (1983), p. 134

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

Rudy Rucker book Master of Space and Time

Source: Master of Space and Time (1984), Chapter 23, “The Way Uptown” (p. 180)