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“To go left, turn right.” I encountered this idea in a different context, and I too thought it was insightful/funny: (On some divided highways) “Left turn fro
by gniv 7y ago
“To go left, turn right.”
I encountered this idea in a different context, and I too thought it was insightful/funny:
(On some divided highways) “Left turn from right lane”
The jughandle would make as good a symbol for a philosophical movement as the yin-yang.
- m12k 7y agoA variation is "never replace/remove something if you can't explain what good it does". The classic example is the big code rewrite, where years of bugfixes and nuances get lost in the 'clean' reimplementation.
- lordfoo 7y agoAlso, Chesterton's Fence https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Chesterton%27s_fence https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Chesterton%27s_fence