Smooth shapes are very rare in the wild but extremely important in the ivory tower and the factory.

If you look at a shape like a straight line, what's remarkable is that if you look at a straight line from close by, from far away, it is the same; it is a straight line.

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

I was in an industrial laboratory because academia found me unsuitable

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.

There is a saying that every nice piece of work needs the right person in the right place at the right time.

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