Adequacy Quote by J. Robert Oppenheimer

To try to become happy is to try to build a machine with no other specifications than it shall run noiselessly.

— J. Robert Oppenheimer

Basically this is what you want - a high performance machine that idiots can run.

— Keith Rabois

Machine makers always run the risk of becoming totally machine.

— Frank Herbert

For a machine to run smoothly and predictably, its parts must be standard and hence replaceable, features which contribute, respectively, to modern depersonalization and…

— Charles Eisenstein

Noise is a parasite. Anything noisy is poorly designed.

— Raymond Loewy

“so efficient it doesn't waste power by making noise”

— Neal Stephenson

When a machine can do something better and faster than a person can, I am happy to let the machine do it.

— Susan Orlean

If you tell me precisely what it is a machine cannot do, then I can always make a machine which will do just that.

— John von Neumann

Anyone can build a fast CPU. The trick is to build a fast system.

— Seymour Cray

You insist that there is something a machine cannot do. If you tell me precisely what it is a machine cannot do, then I…

— John von Neumann

If we are going to build an ambitious machine, then it's got to be a global machine.

— Barry Barish

My unlimited desire to create stuff surpasses the advancement in hardware power.

— Hideo Kojima