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arpad ([personal profile] arpad) wrote2011-01-28 06:04 pm

Riddles of technology

Wittgenstein wrote in his notebook:

from Simplicissimus. (a picture of two professors in front of a bridge under construction).

Voice from above: "Fotch it dahn - coom on fotch it dahn A tell tha - we'll turn it t'other rooad sooin".

- It really is quite incomprehensible, my dear colleague, how anyone can carry out such complicated and precise work in such language.