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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Books to the ceiling, Books to the sky, My pile of books is a mile high.How I love them! How I need them!I'll have a long beard by the time I read them.

Gratitude is a prayer of an appreciating heart for the great gift of life and its endless treasures.

Strength is one of those things you're supposed to have. You don't feel that you have it at the time you're going through it.

Truth springs from argument amongst friends.

The United States is one of the only holdouts, not changing to metric.

There is in the soul a taste for the good, just as there is in the body an appetite for enjoyment.

What people don't understand about Sarah Palin is that she is a rancher's wife. From Alberta down to Texas I've known women like that: good common sense, bright and vilified by city people.

At 19, I basically held the position that if you were intellectually honest and really wanted to get in touch with political reality then you had to smell tear-gas.

You have to be completely open to what people would tell you. You do not shape them; you do not force the materials into your ideas. You have to have all windows and doors open.

There can be no Friendship where there is no Freedom.