Symmetry is overrated. Overrated is symmetry.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- The speaker playfully claims that symmetry is both overrated and that being overrated is itself a form of symmetry.
- In plain terms
- Symmetry is overrated, and being overrated is symmetry.
- What can you take from it?
- Question the value placed on balance and conformity.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- When does symmetry add real value?
Another view
Symmetry can be functionally important despite aesthetic criticism.
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Must be a different Larry Wall. There are at least 137 of us in the U.S.
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