Redundancy Quotes

• This parrot is no more. It has ceased to be. It's expired and gone to meet its maker. This is a late parrot. It's a stiff. Bereft of life, it rests in peace. If you hadn't nailed it to the perch, it would be pushing up the daisies. It's rung down the curtain and joined the choir invisible. This is an ex-parrot.

  Graham Chapman

  Death, Rest In Peace, Would Be

  Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Eric Idle, Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones (2009). “Monty Python Live!”, Hyperion

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• Redundancy is ambiguous because it seems like a waste if nothing unusual happens. Except that something unusual happens-usually .

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Waste, Unusual, Ambiguous

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2012). “Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder”, p.45, Random House

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• One person's "paranoia" is another person's "engineering redundancy."

  Marcus J. Ranum

  Engineering, Paranoia, Persons

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• Not that I have anything much against redundancy. But I said that already.

  Larry Wall

  Said

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• My definition of a redundancy is an air-bag in a politician's car.

  Larry Hagman

  Air, Car, Bags

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• Redundancy is expensive but indispensable.

  Jane Jacobs

  Indispensable, Expensive

  Jane Jacobs (2007). “Dark Age Ahead”, p.159, Vintage

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• Thanks to the redundancy of language, yxx cxn xndxrstxnd whxt x xm wrxtxng xvxn xf x rxplxcx xll thx vxwxls wxth xn "x" (t gts lttl hrdr f y dn't vn kn whr th vwls r)

  Steven Pinker

  Thanks, Language

  Steven Pinker (1994). “The Language Instinct”, William Morrow & Company

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• We are reorganizing in order to eliminate duplication and redundancy.

  Herb Caen

  Order, Interesting, Duplication

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• If you are wired to your memory, repetitions will happen and redundancy will come; but if you are paying attention, that changes your ability to look at things.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Memories, Looks, Attention

  "What Differentiates People Who Are Successful From the Rest, Explains Mystic Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev" by Priyanka Sangani, economictimes.indiatimes.com. December 21, 2012.

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• Redundancy of language is never found with deep reflection. Verbiage may indicate observation, but not thinking. He who thinks much says but little in proportion to his thoughts.

  Washington Irving

  Reflection, Thinking, Style

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• There is an enormous redundancy in every well-written book. With a well-written book I only read the right-hand page and allow my mind to work on the left-hand page. With a poorly written book I read every word.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Book, Hands, Mind

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• Life goes on is a redundancy. Life is defined by its going on.

  David Levithan

  Goes On, Life Is, Defined

  David Levithan (2009). “Love Is the Higher Law”, p.102, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Nature is flexible and resilient. Nature likes redundancy and dispersion. It is approximate and deals in gradients. All boundaries are permeable. Nature nests small systems like molecules within larger systems like cells, which in turn are nested in systems called organs, organisms, ecosystems. We grew from ancient one-celled ancestors. Nature likes mergers: we contain multitudes of other life forms within us. We stand at the crest of four billion years, bacteria molded into wondrous form, burning with a slow fire and about to take the next step.

  Robert Frenay

  Nature, Ecosystems, Fire

  Robert Frenay (2006). “Pulse: The Coming Age of Systems and Machines Inspired by Living Things”, p.32, Macmillan

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• Poetry is sentimental to begin with. To write a sentimental poem is an act of redundancy.

  Mary Ruefle

  Writing, Sentimental, Poetry Is

  Mary Ruefle (2012). “Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures”, p.51, Wave Books

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• Apparently there is redundancy in memory: You store the same memory in different parts of your brain for accessing at different speeds. That speed would depend on the frequency of use and the importance of the knowledge.

  Bill Nye

  Memories, Brain, Different

  "Bill Nye the Science Guy: Don't Worry, Your Phone Isn't Making You Dumb". Interview with Wilson Rothman, gizmodo.com. March 19, 2010.

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• What is full of redundancy or formula is predictably boring. What is free of all structure or discipline is randomly boring. In between lies art.

  Wendy Carlos

  Art, Lying, Discipline

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• What the problem was was this colossal redundancy, the squandering of brilliant technique on cheap material.

  Alan Hollinghurst

  Technique, Brilliant, Problem

  Alan Hollinghurst (2014). “The Line of Beauty: Picador Classic”, p.73, Pan Macmillan

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• Job insecurity, debt servitude, poverty, incarceration and a growing network of real and symbolic violence have entrapped too many young people in a future that portends zero opportunities and zero hopes. This is a generation that has become the new register for disposability, redundancy, and new levels of surveillance and control.

  Henry Giroux

  Jobs, Zero, Real

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• The obese is in a total delirium. For he is not only large, of a size opposed to normal morphology: he is larger than large. He no longer makes sense in some distinctive opposition, but in his excess, his redundancy.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Normal, Excess, Size

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• The idea of creating a national bank I do not concur in, because it seems now decided that Congress has not that power (although I sincerely wish they had it exclusively), and because I think there is already a vast redundancy rather than a scarcity of paper medium.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Thinking, Ideas, Creating

  Thomas Jefferson, Andrew M. Allison (1983). “The Real Thomas Jefferson”, Natl Center for Constitutional

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• Coaches and players at the start must think their way through problems where a more experienced person would react out of habit and memory. One must not gain this experience, however, without being careful of empty redundancy. Do not fall into the error of the artist who boasts of 20 years of experience at his craft while, in fact, all he has had is one year - 20 times.

  John Kessel

  Sports, Memories, Fall

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• Since only an individual man can possess rights, the expression "individual rights"? is a redundancy (which one has to use for purposes of clarification in today's intellectual chaos). But the expression "collective rights"? is a contradiction in terms.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Expression, Rights

  Ayn Rand (1999). “Ayn Rand Reader”, p.385, Penguin

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• Exercise ferments the humors, casts them into their proper channels, throws off redundancies, and helps nature in those secret distributions, without which the body cannot subsist in its vigor, nor the soul act with cheerfulness.

  Joseph Addison

  Inspirational, Nature, Exercise

  Joseph Addison, Richard Steele (1853). “The Spectator”, p.367

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• Noise is the typographical error and the poorly designed page...Ambiguity is noise. Redundancy is noise. Misuse of words is noise. Vagueness is noise. Jargon is noise.

  William Zinsser

  Errors, Marketing, Vagueness

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• Language is not made to be believed but to be obeyed, and to compel obedience newspapers, news, proceed by redundancy, in that they tell us what we ‘must’ think, retain, expect, etc. language is neither informational nor communicational. It is not the communication of information but something quite different: the transmission of order-words, either from one statement to another or within each statement, insofar as each statement accomplishes an act and the act is accomplished in the statement

  Gilles Deleuze

  Communication, Thinking, Order

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