Adam Osborne A dam Osborne was right.
Adequacy is sufficient.
But inadequacy isn't. Osborne, a pioneer in small, portable computers, went bust because his computers had become inadequate. It's a truism that two ways to lose money in business are to buy equipment you don't need and not to buy equipment you do need. The computer has been a poster child for both mistakes. It used to be that the most common mistake was to waste money buying the latest and greatest and biggest and best and then fight with all the problems that come from being on the bleeding edge of technology.