> “Pictures may be worth a thousand words, when there's a picture to match what you're trying to say.” The author is saying that because pictures cannot easily

> “Pictures may be worth a thousand words, when there's a picture to match what you're trying to say.” The author is saying that because pictures cannot easily capture arbitrary sentences, text is better. But the same applies with the roles reversed: text cannot capture arbitrary pictures! Instead of saying that one is better than the other outright, let’s move to media (for reading, composing, and programming) where the two can be intermingled appropriately, with as little friction as possible. We certainly have the technology for it...