For a contrary view, Seymour Cray, premier designer of supercomputers, held parity designs in contempt. He felt it showed poor design—if one designed a transmission path to be reliable, one would not have to waste resources on parity. His famous quote on this (circa 1963) was "Parity is for farmers" (after the use of the term "parity" in the New Deal). After he later included parity bits on the CDC 7600, Cray reputedly said that "I learned that a lot of farmers buy computers."