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?'

I want to create an environment where I can create technology, get it into the hands of someone to market it, and move on to other technologies so I can keep innovating. I want to be a serial entrepreneur: Incubate an idea, get it to a good state, and make that an enabler to get to the next state. It's every researcher's fantasy.

If you have all these images already, why would you need a computer to create an image that makes him a Caucasian from North Africa?

Computers don't create computer animation any more than a pencil creates pencil animation. What creates computer animation is the artist.

Multi-touch sensing was designed to allow nontechies to do masterful things while allowing power users to be even more virtuosic.

'Melancholy' is prettier than 'depression'; it connotes a kind of nocturnal grace. Makes one feel more innocently beleaguered.