Rohini Nilekani

In the ideal world, philanthropy should be redundant or at least it should be at the edges, as innovation or risk capital. But it's far from an ideal world; the wealthy are cornering more and more opportunities and resources from this planet. So, the big challenge for philanthropy is... can it engage with the distribution of wealth itself?

Indian Writer

Salman Rushdie

If you live in free countries, you don't have to spend all your life arguing about freedom because it is all around you. It seems redundant to make a lot of noise about something when, in fact, there it is. But if someone tries to remove it, it becomes important for you to formulate your own defenses of it.

Indian Novelist

Mark Kozelek

When you're a touring musician, you're always turning over new rocks, and there's always a certain level of tension in your life. The music business, and the travel that comes with it, is stressful, challenging, redundant, exhausting, exciting, and often very depressing.

American Musician

Donna Mills

I was always cutting dialogue out when we were rehearsing, and when I produced movies, too. I felt that people don't say things in life - they act, they do things. I always wanted my characters doing, rather than saying what they were doing - which was redundant.

American Actress

Howard Jacobson

To my ear, the term 'comic novelist' is as redundant and off-putting as the term 'literary novelist'.

British Novelist

Alan Rudolph

Nick plays a corrupt politician, which is kind of a redundant statement.

American Director

Mitch Leigh

To call somebody a Jewish composer is obviously redundant.

Ben Bernanke

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

American Public Servant

Gyles Brandreth

Being made redundant is a personal tragedy.

British Actor

Shobana

Implies you're no longer necessary for work, affecting feelings of job safety.

Job Security

Use 'redundant' to suggest trimming excessive parts or roles.

Avoid Excess

Use to advise against saying what’s already been said.

Prevent Repetition

In writing, 'redundant' indicates the need for clearer, shorter expressions.

Clarity in Text

In tech, it emphasizes reliability and continuous operation.

Tech Reliability

Highlights having a backup option in case of failures.

Safety Net

It's a gentle way of discussing the impact of job loss because of restructuring.

Workforce Changes

Being made redundant can carry emotional impact, touching on self-worth.

Emotional Weight

 they go away in high school hallways they are afraid of becoming another hashtag in a second afraid of classroom discussions becoming like judgment day and now oncoming traffic is embracing more transgender children than parents. I wonder how long it will be before the trans suicide notes start to feel redundant,

Lee Mokobe: A powerful...

 several thousand kenya telecom messengers who have be recently been made redundant so if you have winners and losers how do you persuade people that there is a better life how in a sense do you say to them there is a prize at the end of this there is paying but there is prize a prize at the end of

Technology makes way for...

 The network is redundant. Everybody that they know, you know. Or I hope you know them. Right? Your weak ties -- people you just met today -- they are your ticket to a whole new social world. The thing is that we have this amazing ticket to travel our social worlds, but we don't use it very well.

The secret to great...

 these people will be married to the film in perpetuity -- forever. And so the film explores this whole idea -- It's what? In perpetuity, forever? I'm a redundant person. That was more for emphasis. It was, "In perpetuity. Forever." But not only are we going to have the brand X title sponsor,

Morgan Spurlock: The...

 and if I do nothing, the reserve parachute is going to open because of an automatic opening device. The suit itself can protect me from the cold. This area in the front here has thermal protection. It will actually heat water that will wrap around my body. It has two redundant oxygen tanks.

I leapt from the...

 and hidden in the bowels of government, let's build an early detection system that's freely available to anyone in the world in their own language. Let's make it transparent, non-governmental, not owned by any single country or company, housed in a neutral country, with redundant backup

Larry Brilliant: TED...

 aren’t going anywhere soon. But today’s redundant restraints, 3D modeling and simulation software have made roller coasters safer and more thrilling than ever. Our precise knowledge about the limits of the human body have helped us build coasters that are faster, taller, and loopier

How rollercoasters...

 What's the way this could have been prevented? MATT The original designs for this bridge called for a suspension cable. But they decided to opt for a less redundant system with the eyebar chains, which allowed them to dramatically reduce the cost.

The Collapse of West...

 showing them to be redundant with other known species. Enraged, Cope tried to secure priority for new findings by announcing them via telegram. He even purchased a respected journal so future publications could be rushed into print.

The most notorious...

 Think about this. The cultural products of an entire region of the world, as rich, as diverse, have been deemed redundant, if not ignored altogether.

Redundant