Messy Desks (was: Fluency in one's language, and the ROE)

From: "BP Jonsson" > >

> In Sweden we have the saying "If a messy desk implies a messy intellect,
> then what does an empty desk imply?"  I take recourse to it quite often,
to
> which my wife answers something along the lines of "neatly non-empty
> desk".
Might we have the saying in the original Swedish?

Kou