Quotes About Computer Graphics

#1. All problems in computer graphics can be solved with a matrix inversion.

Jim Blinn

#2. As computers have become more powerful, computer graphics have advanced to the point where it's possible to create photo-realistic images. The bottleneck wasn't, 'How do we make pixels prettier?' It was, 'How do we engage with them more?'

Jefferson Han

#3. Loads of computer graphics equals a terrible video in my book.

Dan Hawkins

#4. I've always been very interested in the question of how computation can fundamentally advance the things that we can see. This led me to have a fascination with medical imaging, especially things like MRI and scanning, and eventually computer graphics.

Ren Ng

#5. Of course, I'm referring to the original. With Gene Wilder. Not the lame re-make with Depp. I like Depp. Don't get me wrong. However, that rendition was totally spoiled by the single Umpa-Lumpa multiplied by however many in computer graphics. Awful.

Phillip Tomasso III

#6. Matthew Boylan, former NASA operational graphics manager, worked for years creating photo-realistic computer graphics for NASA. Now a vocal Flat-Earther, Boylan claims that NASA's sole reason for existence is to propagandize the public and promote this false ball-Earth heliocentric worldview.

Eric Dubay

#7. The visual team of 'Blade Runner' - one of the last big fantasy movies to be made without much computer graphics finery - worked directly for Scott, who sketched each of his prolific ideas on paper (they were called 'Ridley-grams').

Richard Corliss

#8. I think 'The Lost World' could've been a successful movie except for the fact that it pre-dated the good special effects and computer graphics.

John Rhys-Davies

#9. My reading is extremely eclectic. Lately I've been teaching myself computer graphics, so I'm reading a lot about that. I read books of trivia, of facts.

Jack Prelutsky

#10. The reason we think that computer graphics technology has succeeded in faking reality is that we, over the course of the last hundred and fifty years, have come to accept the image of photography and film as reality.

Lev Manovich

#11. I play a lot of computer games. I love computer graphics. I've had Pixar in me for a long time.

Robin Williams

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

Ivan Sutherland

#13. At Harvard, I worked for some time as a researcher in a lab for computer graphics and spatial analysis, which is one of the birthplaces for what we do.

Jack Dangermond

#14. My particular aesthetic of light and color and design wouldn't change as a result of working with computer graphics rather than with slit scan or miniatures.

Douglas Trumbull

#15. Currently computer graphics are used a great deal, but it can be excessive.

Hayao Miyazaki

#16. Clearly, if we'd had the kind of computer graphics capability then that we have now, the Star Gate sequence would be much more complex than flat planes of light and color.

Douglas Trumbull

#17. No computer network with pretty graphics can ever replace the salespeople that make our society work.

Clifford Stoll

#18. Graphics experts led by computer scientists at Harvard have created an add-on software tool that translates video game characters - or any other three-dimensional animations - into fully articulated action figures, with the help of a 3D printer.

Anonymous

#19. Man and thranx had been so close for so long that they were no longer thought of as aliens. More like short people in shiny suits.

Alan Dean Foster

#20. There are people who in large measure have information that we need ... so that we can track down the weapons of mass destruction in that country.

Donald Rumsfeld

#21. Nationalism is blamed for this century's wars, but nationalism need not mean militarism. And the nation-state has been the laboratory of liberty.

George Will

#22. We are only tenants, and shortly the great Landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired.

Joseph Jefferson

#23. First we thought the PC was a calculator. Then we found out how to turn numbers into letters with ASCII - and we thought it was a typewriter. Then we discovered graphics, and we thought it was a television. With the World Wide Web, we've realized it's a brochure.

Douglas Adams

#24. I still have five years to the end of my term. There are many candidates. There'll be a problem if it's supposed to be a European or someone from the emerging countries, the so-called BRICS. This will be decided, but please don't think Poland has anything to say about it.

Marek Belka

#25. Much of what you see out there is manufactured by your brain, painted in like computer-generated graphics in a movie; only a very small part of the inputs to your occipital lobe comes directly from the external world, the rest comes from internal memory stores and other processes.

Ruby Wax

#26. The employment laws are completely unrealistic. You cannot overcome that in only 10 years. It will take at least another generation before young people are properly qualified.

Helen Suzman

#27. When war comes, two things happen - profits go way, way up and all perishables go way, way down. There becomes a market for them.

Steven Spielberg

#28. She deserved a man who could take care of her. But fuck if I was just going to leave her. I couldn't do that. I may not be good enough for her but I was gonna damn well try my hardest to become worthy.

Abbi Glines

#29. Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another.

Thomas Hobbes

#30. Conformity is a type of calm where you hover motionless on the edge of a scream that never comes.

Bryant McGill

#31. CGI is to me like watching a cartoon. It can be effective, if it's done well. A lot of times you don't feel any real risk. You're watching a bunch of computer-generated graphics.

Karen Allen

#32. What I proposed was a computer that would be easy to use, mix text and graphics, and sell for about $1,000. Steve Jobs said that it was a crazy idea, that it would never sell, and we didn't want anything like it. He tried to shoot the project down.

Jef Raskin

#33. Don't I look after you when you're ill?' 'You do. You're marvellous to me when I'm ill. It's when I'm well that you're no use.

Howard Jacobson

#34. Anger rose in me. Didn't they know how hard I'd been working to overcome my family background? Now all my efforts were wasted.

Ji-li Jiang