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"Clearly, programming courses should teach methods of design and construction, and the selected examples should be such that a gradual development can be nicely demonstrated."

"Once the product's task is known, design the interface first; then implement to the interface design."

"I believe consistency and orthogonality are tools of design, not the primary goal in design."

"In any case, his judgment and set of values, acting alone or through his assistants, determine not only what is gold and what is dross but the design of the history which he creates out of the metal. The historian decides what is significant, and what is not."
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"There's a consistency in my work that pops up independent of the limitations of the technology."

"It was the point where things became much more abstract and less literal than in the bulk of the film, which was hardcore rockets and space and planets - all a fairly straightforward evolution from what I had been doing before."

"My first job on 2001 was to make all of the HAL readouts: the 16 screens that surround HAL's eyes."

"We're not that far from being able to plant images, memories, and emotional states directly into the brain."

"But as far as the concept of HAL, who HAL was, his character - I had no role in creating him."

"I visited a scientist who had a helmet with magnetic fields controlled by computer sequences that could profoundly affect your mood and your perceptions."

"My particular aesthetic of light and color and design wouldn't change as a result of working with computer graphics rather than with slit scan or miniatures."

"I honestly believe that the next big leap in immersive technology will be very much like Brainstorm."
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