Practical Amplify

Wang Bi, a third-century Chinese scholar, has this to say in “General Remarks on the Changes of the Zhou”:

Images are the means to express ideas. Words are the means to explain the images. To yield up ideas completely, there is nothing better than images, and to yield up the meaning of images, there is nothing better than words.

In other words, he suggests that to capture ideas from the problem space, we need both imaging tools and descriptive tools.Read more at www.ddj.com