Michael - a delightful, if short essay. I'd love to see you carry the pot analogy a bit further. I do think some cracks are predictable - and can think of some cracks (and crack-pots!) I would love to take a hammer to...
To add something to the pot, I will give your score a boost, and I recommend these verses from the Rubaiyat:
LXXXIII. Shapes of all Sorts and Sizes, great and small,
That stood along the floor and by the wall;
And some loquacious Vessels were; and some
Listen'd perhaps, but never talk'd at all.
LXXXIV. Said one among them--"Surely not in vain
My substance of the common Earth was ta'en
And to this Figure molded, to be broke,
Or trampled back to shapeless Earth again."
LXXXV. Then said a Second--"Ne'er a peevish Boy
Would break the Bowl from which he drank in joy;
And He that with his hand the Vessel made
Will surely not in after Wrath destroy."
LXXXVI. After a momentary silence spake
Some Vessel of a more ungainly Make;
"They sneer at me for leaning all awry:
What! did the Hand then of the Potter shake?"
LXXXVII. Whereat some one of the loquacious Lot--
I think a Sufi pipkin--waxing hot--
"All this of Pot and Potter--Tell me then,
Who is the Potter, pray, and who the Pot?"
Sincerely - George Gantz: The Door That Has No Key: https://fqxi.org/community/forum/topic/3494