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Redundancy is expensive but indispensable. -- Jane Jacobs
Redundancy is ambiguous because it seems like a waste if nothing unusual happens. Except that something unusual happens-usually . -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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
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
Redundancy is my favourite business strategy. -- Amit Kalantri
If you bring bring the karaoke machine, I'll bring the air guitar. Also, if you bring two brings, like I just brought, we can have a Redundancy Party. -- Jarod Kintz
My definition of a redundancy is an air-bag in a politician's car. -- Larry Hagman
Not that I have anything much against redundancy. But I said that already. -- Larry Wall
Poetry is sentimental to begin with. To write a sentimental poem is an act of redundancy. -- Mary Ruefle
What the problem was was this colossal redundancy, the squandering of brilliant technique on cheap material, ... -- Alan Hollinghurst
Theres nothing to fear but fears themselves, such as monsters, rejection, food poisoning, redundancy, monsters, and oxford commas. -- Craig Benzine
We have no intention of shutting down plants. We have always said there will be no redundancies or lay-offs as a result of this merger. -- Lakshmi Mittal
No day passes without a Democratic politician, a left-wing commentator, or, if I may be excused a redundancy, a left-wing academic labeling Republicans and conservatives racist. -- Dennis Prager
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Guitar playing, as currently understood, has more to do with sports than it does to do with music. It's an Olympic challenge type of situation. The challenges are in the realm of speed, redundancy, choreography, and grooming... ...clouds of educated gnat-notes. -- Frank Zappa
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
I never understood why you would ever feel the need to shoot the fish in the barrel. I mean, they're in a barrel, you've already caught them. The hard work's done, they can't escape. So if you want them dead, just drain the water out. Why bring guns into it? -- Craig Silvey
Nationalisation...does not in itself engender greater equality, more jobs in the regions, higher investment or industrial democracy. The public knows this perfectly well, and so do the workers who have suffered from pit closures, steel redundancies and the run-down of the railways. It is idiotic to try to bamboozle them. -- Anthony Crosland
Morale is a little bit dimmed, is a bit affected by the redundancy program. That program had been planned for quite some time, and when I took over it was really left to me to make the final decision and it clearly was the right thing to do for the business. -- David Edward Kirk
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
One person's "paranoia" is another person's "engineering redundancy." -- Marcus J. Ranum
We are reorganizing in order to eliminate duplication and redundancy. -- Herb Caen
Life goes on is a redundancy. Life is defined by its going on. -- David Levithan
I like to think of myself as a character actor, though there's some redundancy in that. -- Jeff Bridges
Every economy is uncertain. Referring to this or any economy as 'uncertain' is an unnecessary and pessimistic redundancy. -- Bo Bennett
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
Today, we are announcing that agencies are releasing their final regulatory reform plans, including hundreds of initiatives that will reduce costs, simplify the system, and eliminate redundancy and inconsistency. -- Cass Sunstein
Speech as known to us was unnecessary. A fragment of a sentence amounted almost to a long-winded redundancy. A gesture, a grunt, the curve of a facial line--even a significantly timed pause yielded informational juice. -- Isaac Asimov

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