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"There were IBM logos designed for the film, and there were IBM design consultants working with Kubrick on the layout of the controls and computer screens."

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"There were IBM logos designed for the film, and there were IBM design consultants working with Kubrick on the layout of the controls and computer screens."

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"When I worked on 2001 - which was my first feature film - I was deeply and permanently affected by the notion that a movie could be like a first-person experience."
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"The technology of the time dictated the way things looked."
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"I visited a scientist who had a helmet with magnetic fields controlled by computer sequences that could profoundly affect your mood and your perceptions."
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"I honestly believe that the next big leap in immersive technology will be very much like Brainstorm."
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"But as far as the concept of HAL, who HAL was, his character - I had no role in creating him."

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"But, alas! what poor Woman is ever taught that she should have a higher Design than to get her a Husband?"

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"The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the Government of Reasons; to place our Subject in a Right Light, and excite our Hearers to a due consideration of it."

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"God is His own Design and End, and that there is no other Worthy of Him."

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"Accessible design is good design."

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