From Anne Kaikkonen

World of HCI is very English centric. The language we use when communicating with fellow researchers and practitioners around the world is mostly English. There is nothing wrong with that, if we remember that there are other languages that influence the way people think and perceive the world- and that ability to speak English does not correlate with the intelligence. Gary was a person who genuinely understood this. He spoke English as his native language, but understood that there are so many people who have stories worth hearing, but who have difficulties in expressing these things in English. Also in world of HCI there are many smart practitioners and researchers who cannot join the witty conversations so common to our domain.