“Forget about having an identity crisis and get some identity capital. … Do something that adds value to who you are. Do something that's an investment in who you might want to be next.”
“Trade is 10 times as old as farming.”
— Matt Ridley
Matt Ridley: When ideas have sex
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“You need to understand how human beings bring together their brains and enable their ideas to combine and recombine, to meet and, indeed, to mate. In other words, you need to understand how ideas have sex.”
— Matt Ridley
Matt Ridley: When ideas have sex
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“How did we become the only species that becomes more prosperous as it becomes more populous?”
— Matt Ridley
Matt Ridley: When ideas have sex
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“You can have culture without exchange. You can have, as it were, asexual culture.”
— Matt Ridley
Matt Ridley: When ideas have sex
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