"Taiwan has led the AMiBA telescope project from conception, planning, design and development all the way through to construction," says Director Paul Ho, the former Harvard professor who leads ASIAA and who headed the AMiBA project. "It's a great design, one that other countries don't have. It's an extremely internationally competitive telescope," he continues in slightly broken, Cantonese-accented Mandarin.
「AMiBA 望遠鏡，從計劃構想、設計、開發到製作，全是由台灣主導完成，」曾在美國哈佛大學任教的 AMiBA 計劃主持人、中研院天文所所長賀曾樸，以略帶廣東腔、不甚流利的中文驕傲地說：「這是頂好的設計、其他國家沒有的，極具國際競爭力的望遠鏡。」