You've got an attention span so impressive that people actually want to study you. But you don't have time for that; you're too busy coding, or tinkering, or thinking, or obsessively trying make the world a better place through invention with that savant-like brain of yours.
User: A symbol is _____. an intentional departure from the normal order, construction, or meaning of words something that is itself and also stands for something else a literal and concrete representation of an experience of the senses or of an object known by the senses.
Something can have a meaning without a solid formal definition (love), and likewise something can have a definition but no useful meaning (see InterCal for some good ones). On this page, we assume the thing has some worthwhile meaning. The problem is when someone puts more value in the definition than the meaning.