An extraordinary amount of arrogance is present in any claim of having been the first in inventing something.

I was asking questions which nobody else had asked before, because nobody else had actually looked at certain structures. Therefore, as I will tell, the advent of the computer, not as a computer but as a drawing machine, was for me a major event in my life. That's why I was motivated to participate in the birth of computer graphics, because for me computer graphics was a way of extending my hand, extending it and being able to draw things which my hand by itself, and the hands of nobody else before, would not have been able to represent.

Nobody will deny that there is at least some roughness everywhere

I don't seek power and do not run around

The straight line has a property of self-similarity. Each piece of the straight line is the same as the whole line when used to a big or small extent.

Although computer memory is no longer expensive, there's always a finite size buffer somewhere. When a big piece of news arrives, everybody sends a message to everybody else, and the buffer fills

Think not of what you see, but what it took to produce what you see.