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Quotes from The Sex Sphere — Rudy Rucker

born 1946 United States

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13 quotes

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

The Sex Sphere (1983)

The space of our universe is the hypersurface of a vast expanding hypersphere.

The Sex Sphere (1983)

Don't you think women would like a man's head that always listens to them and agrees?

The Sex Sphere (1983)

This is just so typical of you, Alwin, to be in love with a giant ass.

The Sex Sphere (1983)

Amazing, the respect that nuclear weapons bring.

The Sex Sphere (1983)

Not only am I scared of big, strong men, I'm scared of mean little women. It's just little skinny men and nice big women that I get along with.

The Sex Sphere (1983)

Women care about specifics, about details. Men care about generalities, about abstract principles.

The Sex Sphere (1983)

Was I to be Earth's first casualty in the Attack of the Giant Ass From Hilbert Space?

The Sex Sphere (1983)

It was funny. I knew I didn't want the bomb to be a success. But yet I'd spent so many years working around physics labs that I couldn't stand not to do it right.

The Sex Sphere (1983)

Sybil had an unreal, larger-than-life feeling . . . as if she were a person in a book.

The Sex Sphere (1983)

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?

The Sex Sphere (1983)

I'm not a brave man. My self-image is of a very small and weak person. In point of fact, I'm almost six feet, and solidly built. But I was a late bloomer. I spent those formative early high-school years as a pudgy little science whimp. I'm still scared of big men with deep voices.

The Sex Sphere (1983)

There are many possible realities, infinitely many. Yet most of them are not . . . alive. Most of them are like books that no one ever actually wrote. A group-mind, like humanity's, lights up one given world. What makes this world different from some ghostly alternative universe is that we actually live here.

The Sex Sphere (1983)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Rudy Rucker (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.