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The days when you needed amazing Silicon Graphics machines to run animation software are gone now. -- Dave Rowntree
Graphics has lately made a great shift towards machine learning, which itself is about understanding data. -- Jefferson Han
[Graphics] is a strict and simple system of signs, which anyone can learn to use and which leads to better understanding. -- Jacques Bertin
Innovate, integrate, innovate, integrate, that's the way the industry works, ... Graphics was a stand-alone graphics card; then it's going to be a stand-alone graphics chip; and then part of that's going to get integrated into the main CPU. -- Craig R. Barrett
I'm a creative guy, artistically with graphics. -- Tim Allen
Loads of computer graphics equals a terrible video in my book. -- Dan Hawkins
I would love to take 'Ultimata Underworld' and literally update the graphics. -- Warren Spector
I got my diploma from Ealing College of Art, in graphics and illustration. -- Freddie Mercury
Currently computer graphics are used a great deal, but it can be excessive. -- Hayao Miyazaki
You can't go wrong mixing classic graphics in black and white. It's very Parisienne. -- Brad Goreski
I'm not a craftsman of graphics or art or film. I'm more of an idea generator and manufacturer. -- Mike Mills
I think the more realistic you try to make the graphics and the experience, the more you limit yourself to a single vision. -- Markus Persson
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
I think by drawing, so I'll draw or diagram everything from a piece of furniture to a stage gesture. I understand things best when they're in graphics, not words. -- Robert Wilson
There are so many games where you fight aliens or zombies, and they have very high-fidelity graphics, but they don't ask the question of why the events are happening. -- Hideo Kojima
Because of the nature of Moore's law, anything that an extremely clever graphics programmer can do at one point can be replicated by a merely competent programmer some number of years later. -- John Carmack
You can always think of something like the Xbox 360 as a super set-top box that can do everything the set-top box does, but then have the graphics to do the games as well. -- Bill Gates
There are already a lot of devices in our lives that have rich text or the ability to handle graphics. Our devices are designed to be understood in less than a quarter of a second. -- David Rose
That's why I ended up going to Lancaster University, because they had a visual arts course, and in the first year it was like a broad visual arts course in sculpture, painting, graphics - all of that. -- Andy Serkis
As somebody who participates in the overall PC ecosystem, it's totally great when faster wireless networks and standards come out or when graphics get faster. Windows 8 was like this giant sadness. It just hurts everybody in the PC business. -- Gabe Newell
Apple has always leveraged technologies that the PC industry has driven to critical mass - the bus structures, the graphics cards, the peripherals, the connection networks, things like that - so they're kind of in the PC ecosystem and kind of not. -- Bill Gates
You have to have pace, you have to have high production values, you have to have interesting graphics, and you have to have attractive people. CNN could afford not to be so obedient to those commands, and for a long time, it wasn't. -- Brit Hume
I think newspapers shouldn't try to compete directly with the Web, and should do what they can do better, which may be long-form journalism and using photos and art, and making connections with large-form graphics and really enhancing the tactile experience of paper. -- Dave Eggers
I currently use Ubuntu Linux, on a standalone laptop - it has no Internet connection. I occasionally carry flash memory drives between this machine and the Macs that I use for network surfing and graphics; but I trust my family jewels only to Linux. -- Donald Knuth
I think it's highly likely that we'll continue to have high-performance graphics capability in living rooms. I'm not sure we're all going to put down our game controllers and pick up touch screens - which is a reasonable view, I'm just not sure I buy into it. -- Gabe Newell
The PC is successful because we're all benefiting from the competition with each other. If Twitter comes along, our games benefit. If Nvidia makes better graphics technology, all the games are going to shine. If we come out with a better game, people are going to buy more PCs. -- Gabe Newell
Hollywood is a special place; a place filled with creative geniuses - actors, screenwriters, directors, sound engineers, computer graphics specialists, lighting experts and so on. Working together, great art happens. But in the end, all artists depend on diverse audiences who can enjoy, be inspired by and support their work. -- Ryan Kavanaugh
I always loved both 'Breakout' and 'Asteroids' - I thought they were really good games. There was another game called 'Tempest' that I thought was really cool, and it represented a really hard technology. It's probably one of the only colour-vector screens that was used in the computer graphics field at that time. -- Nolan Bushnell
The summer of 1991, I took $2,000 of my savings and a desktop program, and I asked my friends to write 800 words about something they cared about. I got eight or nine articles and put them together. It was no frills, black and white, no graphics. I printed them out and just dumped piles around D.C. -- Eric Liu
There has to be the popcorn genre element, or I don't engage the same way. I like action and vehicle design and guns and computer graphics as much as I like allegory. It's a constant balancing game. I want audiences to be on this rollercoaster that fits the Hollywood mould, but I also want them to absorb my observations. -- Neill Blomkamp
All problems in computer graphics can be solved with a matrix inversion. -- Jim Blinn
Programming graphics in X is like finding the square root of PI using Roman numerals. -- Henry Spencer
There are about a dozen great computer graphics people and Jim Blinn is six of them. -- Ivan Sutherland
Normally a period movie has a lot of problems with the graphics. They look modern made. -- Guillermo del Toro
No computer network with pretty graphics can ever replace the salespeople that make our society work. -- Clifford Stoll
Us visual thinkers like me, be good at things like industrial design, graphics, art, those kind of jobs. -- Temple Grandin
Public discussions are part of what it takes to make changes in the trillions of graphics published each year. -- Edward Tufte
I play a lot of computer games. I love computer graphics. I've had Pixar in me for a long time. -- Robin Williams
In professional work - certainly in the arts and graphics - 99% of people have zero courage. They blow with the wind. -- George Lois
Whenever I'm around my guy friends, I'm always playing video games. I've always enjoyed the graphics side of them, how they look. -- Sophia Bush
The graphics elevator lurched upwards again. This time the new dimension is multimedia, which means adding sound and fury to the smoke and mirrors. -- Edward Tenner
The best graphics are about the useful and important, about life and death, about the universe. Beautiful graphics do not traffic with the trivial. -- Edward Tufte
Allowing artist-illustrators to control the design and content of statistical graphics is almost like allowing typographers to control the content, style, and editing of prose. -- Edward Tufte
We should work toward a universal linked information system, in which generality and portability are more important than fancy graphics techniques and complex extra facilities. -- Tim Berners-Lee
For a business plan written when the hardware was a wire-wrapped board and the software was three demos on a graphics substrate, it was pretty close. -- Chris Espinosa
Grease' is an awesome movie. I wish they'd make a new one, more for our time. The graphics are terrible when you look back on it. -- Kyrie Irving
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
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
The internet becomes too arch. The clip is uploaded and reuploaded endlessly with banner headlines and crappy 3-D graphics. Stuff rots in this supposedly clinical space. -- Max Tundra
We're quite into graphics that are simultaneously two- and three-dimensional. But I can't really elaborate any further because it's not something - we haven't really perfected it. -- Sean Booth
It can't be stressed enough that in order to produce great graphics, you have to have a good product and a good client capable of making decisions. -- Primo Angeli
After lunch we went into the garden for coffee and I turned on the Surgeon-General with his graphics, percentages etc. of sick and wounded to entertain the Premier. -- Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig
If you take away the fancy graphics of today's games, most of the time you're left with a shell of a game that has been done to death a million times. -- Herman Leonard
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
Clearly, if wed 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
It is difficult to make good scalable use of a CPU like you can of a graphics card. You certainly don't want 'better or worse' physics or AI in your game -- John Carmack
If you look at the Olympic graphics for Mexico or Los Angeles, those programs don't look contemporary by today's eyes but they really look like they are of their place and time. -- Michael Bierut
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
The Apple has the fewest bells and whistles. It has simple sound and few graphics special effects. In a way, that is a weakness because markets for the other machines are getting bigger. -- Bill Budge
Australia has always put out some good design, particularly environmental graphics. I associate that with Australia, more so that a lot of other places. Whether that has anything to do with the landscape, who knows? -- Michael Bierut

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