Quotes About Redundancy

There is too much too much too much of everything. We have enough too. More than enough. We've had enough.

It's not words, but years we should be editing. Remember: time spent on bad art is a form of redundancy, doing the same thing twice is a form of tautology, and wasting precious moments complaining about life is a form of pleonasm. We should all learn to live our lives concisely.

Instead of a single, monolithic system that tried to do everything, Turbulence consisted of nine smaller systems. In part, the various systems served as backups or alternative approaches, in case the others failed or the global technology shifted.

In a way, I wish none of it had ever happened - Facebook, Twitter - if it had never happened the world would have just carried on serenely. It's utterly redundant and yet we all have to be involved in it somehow.

Modern society has perfected the art of making people not feel necessary.

I really don't have to die?" – Abigail "Are we going to be doing this all night? Should I book us a reservation at Redundancy?" – Choo Co La Tah

What really is wild about rock 'n' roll? Nothing. It's so banal and so part of corporate culture. It threatens to lose all its life.

Perhaps, in a world too full of people, she was the one too many.

History repeats itself.

I have been made redundant before and it is a terrible blow; redundant is a rotten word because it makes you think you are useless.

The circumstances of her present life were desperately weary to her. She could hardly understand why it was that Lady Linlithgow should desire her presence. She was required to do nothing. She had no duties to perform, and, as it seemed to her, was of no use to any one.

Reliability depended on redundancy and automatic checking, and human intervention was much more likely to do harm than good.

History repeats the old conceits

And one of the things we did here was we put the maximum amount of money up front in those cities that were at the greater risk, but that doesn't mean that we keep rebuilding the same security over and over again.

The experience of seeing your entire team made redundant is eye-opening.

When you start writing a picture book, you have to write a manuscript that has enough language to prompt the illustrator to get his or her gears running, but then you end up having to cut it out because you don't want any of the language to be redundant to the pictures that are being drawn.

I was made redundant from a job as a PA in a shirt-making company in 1996. I was devastated. I had been there for three years, and it was a job I really liked.

Awards have lost their charm. The experience of getting an award has completely dissolved. Awards functions start in December and go on till April and are distributed for anything and everything. Categories like Best Jodi, Best Dressed Celebrity are all redundant.

if two people agree on everything, one of them is superfluous.

What's been tried once had been tried once before... and before... and before...

A lot of the world seems to repeat itself

I am a not exactly a gadget freak and have the regular phones. But I keep multiple phones because if there's a network issue in one, then I can use another one.

Federal regulations forbid delaying inspections for fracture-critical bridges like the fallen Minneapolis bridge - the kind with a lack of redundancy in design, so that a single failure in a load-bearing part can cause the entire bridge to collapse.

There is no man so insecure as a bottom-level functionary in a sinecure he has held for a long time.