“What's so exciting is to be able to just take something and polish it so much that hopefully in the future people will start borrowing things from it.”

[Interview: Staying on the cutting edge, http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/10/07/1097089476287.html, 2004-10-08, 2007-09-15, The Age]

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