Reality is not what happens to us, but what we do with what happens to us.
现实并非发生在我们身上的事,而是我们如何处理那些发生的事。
It's probably as unlikely that you would nowadays become as rich and famous as Bill Gates, as it was unlikely in the17th century that you would accede to the ranks of the French aristocracy. But the point is, it doesn't feel that way. It's made to feel, by magazines and other media outlets, that if you've got energy, a few bright ideas about technology, a garage -- you, too, could start a major thing.
The most important thing in computer graphics is to understand light and how it interacts with surfaces.