“Outsourcing, in and of itself, isn't responsible for the erosion of America's high tech infrastructure. The short-term thinking that led to a lot of bad outsourcing decisions is the root cause. And short-term thinking isn't a problem confined to the executive suite. It's a problem in Washington and in our society as a whole.”

American computer scientist and animator

Edwin Earl Catmull is an American computer scientist and animator, best known as a co-founder of Pixar and a former president of Walt Disney Animation Studios. His work helped shape modern 3D computer graphics, and he received the 2019 ACM Turing Award for those contributions. Catmull’s career sits at the intersection of technology and animation. He is widely associated with the development of computer graphics techniques that made complex digital imagery possible, and with the studios that brought those tools into mainstream filmmaking.