On Wed, Apr 28, 2004 at 03:18:14PM -0400, Austin Hastings wrote: : They're exclusive by definition.
I don't think so. Merely disjunctional. : Were it to become part of the language, it would be "one of Damian's : Brilliant Ideas". "Crazy" and "Brilliant" are not mutually exclusive either. There are several interesting correlations between (in)sanity and brilliance, but it's only at the extremes that you can make dogmatic assertions about those correlations. To me, a Crazy Idea(TM) is just an idea we have not yet decided the Brilliance (or the lack thereof) of. Larry