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

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.

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

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.

The tourists always seem to want something. On Thisby, it's less about wanting, and more about being." I wonder after I say it if he'll think I sound like have no drive or ambition.

Life is messy and gloriously imperfect, and some signs of wear and tear indicate a well-loved, well-used home.

We have a president [Barack Obama] that doesn't know what's happening, and when it comes to the military.

But Justice, though her dome she doe prolong, Yet at the last she will her owne cause right.

The two-fold goal of all human striving is the avoidance of pain, and the fulfillment of happiness.

I still have more to fight for in the coming years.

People would be shocked to know... that despite the nature of my TV character, I am actually a nice guy

Editors and their authors seldom form deep friendships for the same reason that psychiatrists and their patients keep their distance: The relationship requires candor that mixes poorly with intimacy.

Save me from the ones that haunt me in the night.

Stay the course, light a star, Change the world where'er you are.