Pixar is an incredible company. "If you don't create an atmosphere in which risk can be easily taken, in which weird ideas can be floated, then it's likely you

Pixar is an incredible company. "If you don't create an atmosphere in which risk can be easily taken, in which weird ideas can be floated, then it's likely you're going to be producing work that will look derivative in the marketplace. [...] Those kind of irrational what-ifs eventually lead to something that makes you go, 'Wow, I never would have thought about it.'" "The university's primary purpose is to build morale, spirit and communication among employees. 'If you could create good filmmakers who would work here for 25 years, their first five years of film would be really good; their next five years would be amazing. By the time these people worked together for 25 years, you would just not believe the things that would happen.'" Pixar University: Thinking Outside The Mouse http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/gate/archive/2003/06/04/pixar.DTL http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/gate/archive... Also: whacking Ed Catmull with a balloon. Ed I-coinvented-computer-graphics Catmull. Whack on the head with a long thin red baloon.