Ivan Sutherland Quotes

• 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.

  Ivan Sutherland

  Real, Challenges, Acting

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• 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.

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  Technology, Glasses, Digital Revolution

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

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  Teacher, Motivation, School

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

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  Giving, Gains, Rare Things

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

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  Simple, Problem, Difficult

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

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  Writing, Ideas

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

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  Real, People, Creative

  "Virtual Reality Spy Game 'I Expect You To Die' Tops Second Annual Proto Awards" by Carolyn Giardina, www.hollywoodreporter.com. September 22, 2015.

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• I just need to figure out how things work.

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  Needs, Figures

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

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  People, Dozen, Six

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