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Quotes from Computer-Aided Design: A Statement of Objectives — Douglas T. Ross

1929–2007 United States

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Computer-aided design also is not automatic programming, although automatic programming techniques must necessarily play an important role in computer-aided design.

Computer-Aided Design: A Statement of Objectives (1960)

From the computer application point of view the primary problem [of Computer-Aided Design] is not how to solve problems, but how to state them.

Computer-Aided Design: A Statement of Objectives (1960)

The objective of the Computer-Aided Design Project is to evolve a machine systems which will permit the human designer and the computer to work together on creative design problems.

Computer-Aided Design: A Statement of Objectives (1960)

Computer-aided design is not automatic design, although it must include many automatic design features. By automatic design we mean design procedures which are capable of being completely specified in a form which a computer can execute without human intervention.

Computer-Aided Design: A Statement of Objectives (1960)

It is very difficult to define what is meant by computer-aided design since the complete definition is, in fact, the sum and substance of the total project effort which has only begun. It is much easier to describe, what is not computer-aided design as we mean it.

Computer-Aided Design: A Statement of Objectives (1960)

Automatic design has the computer do too much and the human do too little, whereas automatic programming has the human do too much and the computer do too little. Both techniques are important, but are not representative for what we wish to mean by computer-aided design.

Computer-Aided Design: A Statement of Objectives (1960)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Douglas T. Ross (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.