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

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 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.

Write it in your heart, that you live life to the fullness.

Angels are not beings with wings

You might think that you're ruined. You might think you're defeated. If you love what you're doing you've already succeeded.

Bad news travels at the speed of light good news travels like molasses.

Passion does not blind. No. Passion is sanity, and the woman you love, she is the only person you will ever really understand.

There are surely many legitimate approaches to Biblical literature, and I think that it depends very much on one's experience and temperament which way one deals primarily with Biblical material.

Try as we may to make a silence, we cannot.

I just thought it would be a fun rush of adrenaline to jump out of a plane three times.

The senator had only one argument in his favour: his feeling. When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object. In the realm of kitsch, the dictatorship of the heart reigns supreme.