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.
Knowledge is a rare thing -- you gain by giving it away.
It's very satisfying to take a problem we thought difficult and find a simple solution. The best solutions are always simple.
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.
