Quotes About Redundancy

Certainly it's a business and you've got to have a salesman, but in my mind, when you've got two guys doing the same thing, you don't need one of them.

Oh, it might not be perfect. It might be a bit redundant, or resort to the occasional expository infodump. But even real people do that, don't they?

But when you get to a song, not only do you have to do a vocal melody, you have to write words and not be redundant and make some semblance of a story.

There are too many awards shows.

I have to buy three of everything. It doesn't make any sense, but I have to. I'm worried I might lose it, and if I lose it, then I have a backup and then I have a backup to my backup.

To speak is to fall into tautology.

Parlare é incorrere in tautologie.

Pessimists are not boring. Pessimists are right. Pessimists are superfluous.

What the beautiful-writing writers are most attached to is almost always superfluous.

The configuration in Example 33-8 works, but in many cases, routers might have multiple ntp server commands configured for redundancy. The goal is to have at least one usable clock source (servers per multiple ntp server commands, or internal clock as per the ntp master command). The router then chooses the best NTP clock source based on the stratum level. The stratum level defines the quality of the clock source; the lower the stratum, the better the source.

Immersion teachers adjusted their use of French to make it accessible to students. They did this through careful choice of vocabulary, syntax, pacing, and intonation, and by avoiding needless complexity, making points directly rather than elliptically, and adding redundancy. Other techniques included contextual cues such as gestures, facial expressions, and body language.

Redundancy—inefficient by definition—serves as the antidote to confusion.

There is a man in him that could support it,' Archie said. 'True enough. But it is maybe a man the world could do without.

Tried to die, though, but can't. You can't die when you never really lived, can you? It would be redundant.

In the 1930s, with no computers to precisely calculate tolerances of construction materials, cautious engineers simply heaped on excess mass and redundancy. "We're living off the overcapacity of our forefathers.

I like to think of myself as a character actor, though there's some redundancy in that.

On the same bill and on the same side of it there should not be two charges for the same thing.

Talk about sloppy seconds. Was there such a thing as sloppy thousandths?

Poetry is sentimental to begin with. To write a sentimental poem is an act of redundancy.

Redundancy is my favourite business strategy.

déjà vu all over again.

If the organization grows in size, higher-ups' importance will almost invariably be measured by the total number of employees working under them, which, in turn, creates an even more powerful incentive for those on top of the organizational ladder to either hire employees and only then decide what they are going to do with them or—even more often, perhaps—to resist any efforts to eliminate jobs that are found to be redundant.

This edition of The Making of a Quagmire differs in a number of ways from the original one. Approximately one-third of the text has been cut in an effort to eliminate material that seemed clearly redundant or that did not relate directly to the Vietnam war.

It would be useless to bomb Washington. If you destroy one building, they already have two other buildings completely staffed with people doing exactly the same thing.