Quotes About Redundancy

Bored with the same type of misery over and over and over again.

Siempre sentí que me sobraba una mano; por algo el Mono nos hizo dobles, nos proveyó de «repuestos», por decirlo de alguna manera. No sería muy atractivo, pero podríamos vivir perfectamente con un solo brazo, una sola pierna, un solo ojo, un solo riñón, un solo pulmón, un solo huevo (incluso sin ninguno), un solo oído y un solo corazón.

the Australian economist Peter Saunders argues, 'Nobody planned the global capitalist system, nobody runs it, and nobody really comprehends it. This particularly offends intellectuals, for capitalism renders them redundant. It gets on perfectly well without them.

If two people have the same opinion, one is unnecessary.

Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.

Gratuitous redundancy makes prose difficult not just because readers have to duplicate the effort of figuring something out, but because they naturally assume that when a writer says two things she means two things, and fruitlessly search for the nonexistent second point.

Bored with the same type of misery over and over and over again.

Things repeat themselves.

Words that add no new information or aren't repeated for emphasis are just padding. A sentence may carry three or five or eight of them, each one as unnoticeable as an extra two ounces on your hips but collectively adding up to a large burden of fat.

I exist because I am expendable. In all honesty, it's because if I get hurt, I can be replaced.

Animals in pens have lots of time to develop theories, said the Cow, I've heard more than one clever creature draw a connection between the rise of tiktokism and the erosion of traditional Animal labour. We weren't beasts of burden, but we were good reliable labourers. If we were made redundant in the workforce, it was only a matter of time before we'd be socially redundant too.

Totalitarianism strives not toward despotic rule over men, but toward a system in which men are superfluous.

Last month we had to sit through a presentation on eliminating redundancy, and it was a bunch of PowerPoint slides, plus a guy reading out what was on the slides, and then he gave us all hard copies.

I'm an extremely introverted and isolated writer, but I was starting to feel exhausted and as if my writing was becoming redundant. As much as it was a silly fear of mine, I began opening myself up to other writers and it was the best decision I could've made for my art.

Redundancy of function is always more reliable than attempts at perfection, which time treats cruelly.

When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.

When microorganisms die, they make oil; when huge timbers fall, they make coal. But everything here was pure, unadulterated rubbish that didn't make anything. Where does a busted videodeck get you?

For an example of empathy in action, consider what happened when two giant brokerage companies merged, creating redundant jobs in all their divisions. One division manager called his people together and gave a gloomy speech that emphasized the number of people who would soon be fired. The manager of another division gave his people a different kind of speech. He was up-front about his own worry and confusion, and he promised to keep people informed and to treat everyone fairly.

Being made redundant is a personal tragedy.

I hoard and buy loads of the same things over and over - DVDs, clothes, trainers.

Repetition breeds reiteration.

M]y favorite teacher was explaining that you don't say but however . These are pleonasms: the use of more words than necessary to express an idea. There are times in life that are very but however .

We're the only species that invents all of this stuff to make our lives easier-like a car so that we don't need to walk-then invents something else to take the place of it, like running on a treadmill.

People often work hard to obtain information they already have