'For an exercise in interesting but unintelligible categorization, consider Jorge Luis Borges's story of "a 'certain Chinese encyclopaedia' in which it is written that 'animals are divided into: (a) belonging to the Emperor, (b) embalmed, (c) tame, (d) sucking pigs, (e) sirens, (f) fabulous, (g) stray dogs, (h) included in the present classification, (i) frenzied, (j) innumerable, (k) drawn with a very fine camelhair brush, (l) et cetera, (m) having broken the water pitcher, (n) that from a long way off look like flies.'" '[...I found this quoted in Michel Foucault, "The Order of Things"...]'
- Hubert L. Dreyfus, "What Computers Still Can't Do: A Critique of Artificial Reason", MIT Press, 1992