Douglas T. Ross

"A general theme for what I'm trying to convey and what actually drove me and my very industrious and creative project members over all these years, is... that there is much more to it than pictures. I…"

"There are certain basic, known principles about how people's minds go about the business of understanding, and communicating understanding by means of language, which have been known and used for many…"

"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…"

"I just looked in the phone book, and called up the Executive Officer of the Servomechanisms Laboratory and said, "I'm a math graduate student and would like a summer job. If you could find an electric…"

"Douglas T. Ross on informatik.uni-trier.de"

"I realized after I'd been at MIT for a while that I had never even known the semantics of the word "engineering". You see, all my relatives and contacts were medical doctors or biology and chemistry p…"

"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."

"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."