Yuval Noah Harari

The most important question in 21st-century economics may well be, 'What should we do with all the superfluous people, once we have highly intelligent non-conscious algorithms that can do almost everything better than humans?

Israeli Historian

Ludwig Quidde

Let us assume that the ideal were reached; let us imagine a state of international life in which the danger of war no longer exists. Then no one would dare to demand a penny for obviously completely superfluous armaments.

German Critic

Grace Slick

Through your life, most people peel away the junk that's not useful, that's superfluous. You are determined to peel that away. I do one thing at a time. One man at a time. One car. One house. One child. One job.

American Musician

Rosa Luxemburg

Democracy is indispensable, not because it renders superfluous the conquest of political power by the proletariat, but, on the contrary, because it makes this seizure of power both necessary and possible.

Russian Activist

Paulo Coelho

Elegance is achieved when all that is superfluous has been discarded and the human being discovers simplicity and concentration: the simpler and more sober the posture, the more beautiful it will be.

Brazilian Novelist

Leonardo da Vinci

Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous.

Italian Artist

David Hilbert

One can measure the importance of a scientific work by the number of earlier publications rendered superfluous by it.

German Mathematician

Yoko Ono

Art is a mind-game that we do to make our lives easier. If it isn't for that, it becomes superfluous.

American Artist

Richard Dawkins

God stands out in the universe as the most glaring of all superfluous sore thumbs.

English Scientist

Voltaire

French Writer

Use 'superfluous' to point out something unnecessary that repeats what's already been said or done.

Avoid redundancy

'Superfluous' often implies that the excess is wasteful or could be avoided.

Connotation of waste

When describing work or an argument, 'superfluous' signals unnecessary complexity or over-elaboration.

Critique of excess

'Superfluous' denotes quantity, suggesting something goes beyond what is reasonable or appropriate.

Excess quantity

While often about size, 'superfluous' also refers to extra features, components, or actions.

Not just size

 And I feel silly and stupid sometimes for valuing these small moments of human connection in times like these. But I've always operated under this idea that these little moments of humanness are not superfluous. They're not retreats from the world at all,

You are not alone in...

 Because the small number of signals have thousands of possible paths by which to distribute themselves. A drawback of sparse coding within a huge number of neurons is its cost. Worse, if a big proportion of cells never fire, then they are superfluous