The picket fence There was a fence with spaces you could look through if you wanted to. An architect who saw this thing stood there one summer evening. Took out the spaces with great care and built a castle in the air. The fence was utterly dumbfounded, each post stood there with nothing round it. Christian Morgenstern, The Art of Looking Sideways www.andrew.cmu.edu spacearchitectureabsurdity
Everything that can be said Everything that can be thought at all can be thought clearly. Everything that can be said can be said clearly. Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus What can be put into words understanding