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Quotes About Redundancy

The city is redundant: it repeats itself so that something will stick in the mind. […] Memory is redundant: it repeats signs so that the city can begin to exist.
~ Italo Calvino
In a world where anybody can find anything with just a few keystrokes, intermediaries like salespeople are superfluous. They merely muck up the gears of commerce and make transactions slower and more expensive.
~ Daniel H. Pink
Eliminate agencies that perform redundant functions... Get rid of the Department of Commerce, the Department of Education, the Department of Energy.
~ Rick Perry
Many people have asked me how I feel about losing my job.
~ Carly Fiorina
He was thinking about automated teller machines. The term was aged and burdened by its own historical memory. It worked at cross-purposes, unable to escape the inferences of fuddled human personnel and jerky moving parts. The term was part of the process that the device was meant to replace. It was anti-futuristic, so cumbrous and mechanical that even the acronym seemed dated.
~ Don DeLillo
It's the way a man chooses to limit himself that determines his character. A man without habits, consistency, redundancy - and hence boredom - is not human. He's insane.
~ Luke Rhinehart
He had blown the trumpet for so long that no one heard it anymore.
~ John Grisham
You can't call it a mistake, when you do it over and over again.
~ Unknown
Izzy believed in redundancy.
~ John Sandford
Theres nothing to fear but fears themselves, such as monsters, rejection, food poisoning, redundancy, monsters, and oxford commas.
~ Craig Benzine
There are considerable advantages to using many degrees of freedom to store information, stability and controllability being perhaps the most important.
~ Seth Lloyd
It's like deja-vu, all over again.
~ Yogi Berra
Repetition will be repeated
~ NightBits
The superfluous, a very necessary thing.
~ Voltaire
que se te muera un hijo es alegría. Y creo —ahora, sin más dudas, creo— que todo lo que pueda decir sobre la esclavitud es redundante.
~ Unknown
This is like deja vu all over again
~ Yogi Berra
To be a human is to state the obvious. Repeatedly, over and over, until the end of time.
~ Matt Haig
First-line indents and space between paragraphs have the same relationship as belts and suspenders. You only need one to get the job done. Using both is a mistake.
~ Unknown
History repeats itself. Historians repeat each other." [ 1880 ]
~ Max Beerbohm
My greatest fear: repetition.
~ Max Frisch
It's not for me - religion. It seems like a redundancy for a poet.
~ May Swenson
Look in his eyes. He has died a thousand times these last moments...You defeated him utterly the moment you saw fear in his eyes. All else is redundancy.
~ Unknown
Our goals were redundancy and mutual support.
~ Unknown
Unnecessary repetition, redundancies, and near redundancies also contribute to wordiness. For example: basic fundamentals (fundamentals); consensus of opinion (consensus); potential promise (potential); past history (history); personal friendship (friendship); total effect (effect); end result (result).
~ Unknown