Quotes About Redundancy

It hit me right there and then that these antifragile hormetic responses were just a form of redundancy, and all the ideas of Mother Nature converged in my mind. It is all about redundancy. Nature likes to overinsure itself.

my ideas on redundancy in systems.

The overlap between newspapers was so large that you would get less and less information the more you read.

Avoid optimization; learn to love redundancy.

The likely consequences of this coming age of uncertainty—when a growing number of people will have good reason to fear job loss and long-term redundancy—will be a return to dependency upon the state.

They often keep turning the handle of the grinder after the coffee is ground.

And what so tedious as a twice-told tale.

What so tedious as a twice-told tale?

When you're writing in big block paragraphs, you can afford to have a redundant sentence now and then, but the Twitter format requires concision.

If two people always agree, one of them is redundant.

History repeats itself.

To create man was a quaint and original idea, but to add the sheep was tautology.

Globalization is in crisis. Populism is on the march. Authoritarian states are ascendant. Technology meanwhile marches inexorably ahead, threatening to render most human beings redundant or immortal or both. How do we make sense of all this?

perché aveva scritto che alla stazione di Torino due treni diretti s'incrociavano: l'uno in partenza, e l'altro in arrivo. La sua descrizione pareva stolidamente ridondante. Ma, a ripensarci bene, l'annotazione non è così ridondante come appare a prima vista. Dov'è che due treni che s'incrociano non ripartono entrambi dopo essere arrivati?

I want the superfluous, the useless, the extravagant, excess, that which serves no purpose.

My little Matthew, Isabelle at once snapped back at him, when two people agree, it means one of them is redundant

Rub R. Stamp has one virtue: he can repeat whatever is told him.

Sabía que era inútil interponerse entre un idiota y su locura; mientras que dos o tres idiotas menos no se echarían de menos en el mundo.

Every natural language has redundancy built in; this is why people can understand text riddled with errors and why they can understand conversation in a noisy room.

Pattern, as he saw it, equals redundancy. In ordinary language, redundancy serves as an aid to understanding. In cryptanalysis, that same redundancy is the Achilles' heel.

Literature is about as unnecessarily necessarily as tableware or ironed shirts.

When times are bad, the gloves come off and employers are less nice. People become disposable.

Nós todos assistimos aos mesmos programas de TV. Ouvimos as mesmas coisas no rádio, conversamos sobre os mesmos assuntos uns com os outros. Não há mais novidades. É tudo mais do mesmo. Reprises.

So accurately does history repeat itself.