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

It's very satisfying to take a problem we thought difficult and find a simple solution. The best solutions are always simple.

I just need to figure out how things work.

It's not the school, the curriculum, or the teacher, but motivation that is the single most important ingredient in learning.

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.

Knowledge is a rare thing -- you gain by giving it away.

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.