A Word is Worth a Thousand Pictures
- Kind
- Internet Article
- Date
- February 3, 2015
- Publisher
- Entropy Magazine
- Retrieved
- Nov 8, 2019
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Words are More Powerful than Pictures
This “algebraic” flexibility of a word encapsulates the essence of something while leaving unnecessary concretes out. A photo doesn’t and can’t. Further, a word offers enormous flexibility in terms of input/output. It can be spoken, thought, gestured (as in sign language), written, grammatically combined with other…