A display connected to a digital computer gives us a chance to gain familiarity with concepts not realizable in the physical world. It is a looking glass into a mathematical wonderland.

The screen is a window through which one sees a virtual world. The challenge is to make that world look real, act real, sound real, feel real.

It's not the school, the curriculum, or the teacher, but motivation that is the single most important ingredient in learning.

It's very satisfying to take a problem we thought difficult and find a simple solution. The best solutions are always simple.

Knowledge is a rare thing -- you gain by giving it away.

It's not an idea until you write it down.

The cinema camera doesn't make movies; it allows movies to be made. It's the creative people who make it real to people.

I just need to figure out how things work.

There are about a dozen great computer graphics people and Jim Blinn is six of them.

Peace is not happenstance. It is a living fire that must be fed constantly. It must be tended to with vigilance, else it dies out.

My dad grew up in a working-class Jewish neighbourhood, and I got a scholarship from my dad's union to go to college. I went there to get an education, not as an extension of privilege.

I'm a hundred-and-one years old and at my age, honey, I can say what I want!

You know, sometimes guys work with other guys because they're buddies off the track, not necessarily because they're buddies on the track. Sometimes you've got that going against you or for you.

When surprised and excited and innocent Gus emerged from Grand Gesture Metaphorically Inclined Augustus, I literally could not resist.

It is really not what we have in our hand that gets the job done, but it is God's power filling what we have in our hand.

I would say to everybody that hydraulic fracking is safe.

I was always into cartoons and animation.

Our ability to create has outreached our ability to use wisely the products of our invention.

My life is my statement and I try to be true to myself and thusly to other people. Whatever my failings are, they are human and I try to perfect it each day.