Ivan Sutherland quotes

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

#Writing #Ideas

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.
-- Ivan Sutherland

#Glasses #Giving #Wonderland

I just need to figure out how things work.
-- Ivan Sutherland

#Needs #Figures

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

#Simple #Problem #Difficult

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 #Sound

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

#People #Dozen #Six

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

#Giving #Gains

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

#Teacher #Motivation #School

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

#Real #People #Creative

Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.

Because of a friend, life is a little stronger, fuller, more gracious thing for the friend's existence, whether he be near or far. If the friend is close at hand, that is best; but if he is far away he still is there to think of, to wonder about, to hear from, to write to, to share life and experience with, to serve, to honor, to admire, to love.

It came about as follows: over the years when I was involved in dianetics, I wrote the beginnings of many stories. I would get an idea, and then write the beginning, and then never touch it again.

If the first requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite, the second is to put in your apprenticeship as a feeder when you have enough money to pay the check but not enough to produce indifference of the total.

When I write I have no loyalty except to historical truth as I see it and care no more about British achievements and mistakes than any other.

Piglet was so excited at the idea of being Useful that he forgot to be frightened any more, and when Rabbit went on to say that Kangas were only Fierce during the winter months, being at other times of an Affectionate Disposition, he could hardly sit still, he was so eager to begin being useful at once.

The Empress has been connected with the ideas of universal fecundity and in a general sense with activity.

There's a very passionate pro-chewing movement on the Internet called Chewdiasm. They say that we should be chewing 50 to 100 times per mouthful, which is insane. I tried that. It takes like a day and a half to eat a sandwich. But their basic idea is right. If you chew, you'll eat slower and you will get more nutrients.

To read is to fly: it is to soar to a point of vantage which gives a view over wide terrains of history, human variety, ideas, shared experience and the fruits of many inquiries.

The man with but one idea in his head is sure to exaggerate that to top-heaviness, and thus he loses his equilibrium.