I've always felt that constraining yourself to poetry that rhymes restricts both what you can say and the artfulness with which you can say it.

Caledonian, shouldn't you check up on who currently owns the word 'reasoning' before stating that?

I guess there must be some sort of register somewhere...

I hate to be a pedant (no really!), but most humans have eight fingers and two thumbs.

Hmm, tricky one.

Do I get to pick the person who has to be tortured?

AI's need Emergence too. Make sure to add some of that to the soup ;^)

Surely if only the greatest thinkers thought it, everyone else who holds it to be true has it cached?

In the case of Divorce, the reasons cannot always be taken as evidence for the marriage having been a mistake to begin with.

Things happen and people change.

If you had the time, National Novel Writing Month might be a useful exercise for you!

Another great post.

Aren't we understating the role of labels in brevity here?

Where the labelled thing is understood well enough by the labeller and listener or of trivial importance to the problem domain, don't labels contribute to cognitive economy?

I'd have said when you need to get things done, fear of wasting time is desirable rather than deadly.