WIST Quotations

Richter, Jean-Paul -- Titan, Jubilee 31, cycle 122 [Schoppe] (1803) [tr. Brooks (1863)]

Dave — Sat, 31 Aug 2024 00:39:06 +0000

I will explain myself more clearly, — the Germans add, when they have explained themselves clearly.

[Ich will mich deutlicher erklären, setzen die Deutschen hinzu, wenn sie sich deutlich erklärt haben.]

Jean Paul Richter (1763-1825) German writer, art historian, philosopher, littérateur [Johann Paul Friedrich Richter; pseud. Jean Paul]
Titan, Jubilee 31, cycle 122 [Schoppe] (1803) [tr. Brooks (1863)]
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Jacobs, Jane -- Dark Age Ahead, ch. 7 “Unwinding Vicious Spirals” (2004)

Dave — Mon, 26 Aug 2024 15:46:55 +0000

Redundancy is expensive but indispensable.

Jane Jacobs (1916-2006) American-Canadian journalist, author, urban theorist, activist
Dark Age Ahead, ch. 7 “Unwinding Vicious Spirals” (2004)
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Snicket, Lemony -- Who Could That Be At This Hour?, ch. 1 (2012)

Dave — Tue, 24 Nov 2020 16:18:51 +0000

Don’t repeat yourself. It’s not only repetitive, it’s redundant, and people have heard it before.

Lemony Snicket (b. 1970) American author, screenwriter, musician (pseud. for Daniel Handler)
Who Could That Be At This Hour?, ch. 1 (2012)
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Stross, Charles -- The Apocalypse Codex (2012)

Dave — Tue, 25 Apr 2017 20:21:22 +0000

Bureaucracies are inefficient by design. Inefficiency is the twin sister of redundancy, of overcapacity, of the ability to plow through a swamp by brute force alone.

Charles "Charlie" Stross (b. 1964) British writer
The Apocalypse Codex (2012)