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Quotes About Redundancy

needless to say is a harmless enough expression, but it often draws attention to the fact that you really didn't need to say it.
~ Bill Bryson
There is perhaps a kind of strange double comfort in knowing that you will almost certainly never lose your uvula but that it wouldn't matter too much anyway if you did.
~ Bill Bryson
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~ Bill Bryson
The heart of [J.G.] Ballard's vision [is] the object at odds with its function and abandoned by its time.
~ Tacita Dean
I'll tell you, what the world doesn't need is another Joe Bonamassa DVD.
~ Joe Bonamassa
And there's no such thing as too much back-up.
~ Stephen Baxter
If company objectives are in conflict with personal ones, only one of them will win. Either the employees leave the company (as regularly happens in the most obvious form of conflict – forced redundancy) or the strategy will be sabotaged, consciously or unconsciously.
~ Stephen Bungay
What's so fun about doing the same thing again and again? You can only slap the handcuffs on a guy so many times.
~ Andre Braugher
Two is one; one is none.
~ Michael Stephen Fuchs
You can never have too much backup.
~ Terry Pratchett
What can fail, will fail in worst time, so build suspenders and redundancy
~ Gary Keller
Scholars tell us that redundancy is correlated with retention. To minimize retention, a propagandist says one thing while showing the opposite. When the two differ, what we see tends to override what we hear.
~ Brooks Jackson
Take mankind in mass, and for the most part, they seem a mob of unnecessary duplicates.
~ Herman Melville
Why cover the same ground again? ... It goes against my grain to repeat a tale told once, and told so clearly.
~ Homer
Machines can do things cheaper and better. We're very used to that in banking, for example. ATM machines are better than tellers if you want a simple transaction. They're faster, they're less trouble, they're more reliable, so they put tellers out of work.
~ Geoffrey Hinton
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~ Steven Pinker
Doesn't it strike you that the one person I save every day is a person who doesn't even want to live? Doesn't it make you feel completely redundant?
~ Cecelia Ahern
Instagram something with the intention of it being taken down by Instagram. Take a screenshot of it; keep a record of it. Instagram the screenshot. Screenshot that Instagram. If it is taken down again, repeat the process until all you're posting is a screenshot of a screenshot of a screenshot . . . of the original photo.
~ Kenneth Goldsmith
Your photo of the Eiffel Tower on Flickr is identically redundant to the millions already stored on Flickr, yet you keep on snapping them (just as I keep downloading MP3s).
~ Kenneth Goldsmith
Make infrastructure easier to rebuild than to repair
~ Gene Kim
A fragment of a sentence amounted almost to a long-winded redundancy.
~ Isaac Asimov
When you've heard one bagpipe tune, you've heard them both.
~ Jack Finney
I got two stools, in case I want to sit down and sit down again on something else.
~ Mitch Hedberg
So this is where stylists go when they've outlived their use. To sad theme underwear shops where they wait for death.
~ Suzanne Collins