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the mess is just creativity that hasn't apologized for itself yet
means A state of untidiness, disorder, or confusion — or a situation that has gone badly wrong.
from From Old French 'mes,' a portion of food or a course at a meal, from Late Latin 'missum' (something put on the table, from 'mittere,' to send or put). For centuries a 'mess' was simply a dish served up — and a group dining together became a 'mess,' which survives in the military 'mess hall.' The slide toward 'disorder' came later, likely from the idea of mixed or jumbled food (a 'mess of pottage'), the sense of a sloppy, indiscriminate heap eventually swallowing the original meal entirely.
- navy origin
- sailors ate in groups called messes before chaos took the word
- einstein's defense
- cluttered desk equals cluttered mind, so what of empty desks
- entropy law
- the universe legally requires everything to trend toward disorder
- messy genius
- disorganized desks linked to more creative idea generation
deepwater horizon oil spill — bp platform explosion in gulf of mexico, 2010, leaked 4.9 million barrels