His intention was to point out, in a humorous way, "man's capacity for exerting maximum effort to accomplish minimum results". A Goldberg "invention" is not easy to describe in less than a couple hundred words, but a quick view of even one of them makes their spirit plain.
Tracing the critique of mechanization back to Dada – often through imaginary contraptions that had a very real philosophical function – the MoMA exhibition artfully revealed many of the technological excesses that were becoming increasingly excessive, and foretold a future that would increasingly follow Goldberg's techno-dystopian formula: "exerting maximum effort to accomplish minimum results".
Therefore, different design strategies can require that the manoeuvre is accomplished with minimum vibrations' amplitude at the end-effector.
In a 2010 book that he edited, "Longer Lasting Products," Cooper suggests possible ways to accomplish this: Minimum standards of durability, repairability, and upgradeability.
Such a person can at least accomplish the minimum, which is to signal to the customer that attention is being paid, in a generous, original, specific and small-ego way.
The configurability of the parameters is reduced to a large extent, but additional features like multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) and hybrid automatic repeat request (H-ARQ) are now mandatory to accomplish the minimum requirements of the standard, and also, backward compatibility is mandatory.
Accomplish the minimum amount required.
What costs me such physical effort she accomplishes with a minimum of gesture.
By the time she foils a terrorist plot — assisted by multiple off-camera wardrobe changes — there is little for Mr. Van Peebles to do but look embarrassed, a task he accomplishes with the minimum of effort.
Some in the GOP were downcast Wednesday at the prospect of ending two years of unified Republican control of Washington with a short-term spending bill that accomplishes the bare minimum on Congress's most fundamental responsibility — funding the federal government.
