"creativity [sic] is knowing what to do when the rules run out or there are no rules in the first place"
Matthew B. Crawford
- Shop Class as Soulcraft.

nincompoop:
1676, nicompoop . Despite similarity [noted by Johnson] to L. legal phrase non compos mentis "insane, mentally incompetent" (1607), the connection is denied by etymologists because the earliest forms lack the second -n- . Weekley thinks first element may be a proper name, and cites Nicodemus , which he says was used in Fr. for "a fool," or Nicholas .