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===Quotes=== * "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."<ref name="ultimate_display">{{cite book |last=Sutherland |first= Ivan E. |author-link=Ivan Sutherland |title=Proceedings of IFIP Congress |year=1965 |pages=506β508 |chapter=The Ultimate Display |chapter-url=http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.136.3720}}</ref> * "The ultimate display would, of course, be a room within which the computer can control the existence of matter. A chair displayed in such a room would be good enough to sit in. Handcuffs displayed in such a room would be confining, and a bullet displayed in such a room would be fatal."<ref name="ultimate_display"/> * When asked: "How could you possibly have done the first interactive graphics program, the first non-procedural programming language, the first object oriented software system, all in one year?", Sutherland replied: "Well, I didn't know it was hard."<ref name="kay_lecture">{{cite video |people=Alan Kay (Speaker) |date=1987 |title=Doing with Images Makes Symbols |url=https://archive.org/details/AlanKeyD1987 |medium=Videotape |publisher=University Video Communications, Apple Computer |access-date=22 September 2011}}</ref> * "Itβs not an idea until you write it down."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://amturing.acm.org/award_winners/sutherland_3467412.cfm|title=Ivan Sutherland|last=Burton|first=Robert|year=2012|work=A.M. Turing Awards|access-date=2 May 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170919194156/http://amturing.acm.org/award_winners/sutherland_3467412.cfm|archive-date=19 September 2017|url-status=dead}}</ref> * "Without the fun, none of us would go on!"<ref>{{Citation | last = Sutherland | first = Ivan | author-link = Ivan Sutherland | title = Technology and Courage |date=April 1996 | citeseerx = 10.1.1.137.8273 }}</ref>
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