8 Quotes by Ivan Sutherland

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

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.

I just need to figure out how things work.

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

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

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

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.

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