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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.

— Douglas T. Ross Computer-Aided Design: A Statement of Objectives (1960)

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We never have any understanding of any subject matter except in terms of our own mental constructs of "things" and "happenings" of that subject matter.

Structured analysis (SA): A language for communicating ideas (1977)

Example of a structured analysis approach.

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)

Even though we started in the days when the equipment itself wasn't able to do very exciting visual things, we were always concentrating on this matter of communication and meaning.

Retrospectives : The Early Years in Computer Graphics at at MIT, Lincoln Lab and Harvard (1989)

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