Ivan Sutherland

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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
Collection: Real
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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.
- Ivan Sutherland
Collection: Technology
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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.
- Ivan Sutherland
Collection: Teacher
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Knowledge is a rare thing -- you gain by giving it away.
- Ivan Sutherland
Collection: Giving
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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.
- Ivan Sutherland
Collection: Simple
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It's not an idea until you write it down.
- Ivan Sutherland
Collection: Writing
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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.
- Ivan Sutherland
Collection: Real
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I just need to figure out how things work.
- Ivan Sutherland
Collection: Needs
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There are about a dozen great computer graphics people and Jim Blinn is six of them.
- Ivan Sutherland
Collection: People