This idea holds out hope that the human race will prosper mightily in the years ahead-because ideas are having sex with each other as never before.

We consciously decide whether to consider people; we fall in love despite ourselves; we entirely fail to fall in love with people who fall in love with us. It is a mightily complicated business.

Intelligence will become more and more collective; innovation and order will become more and more bottom-up.

Considering the way evolution works, it should not be surprising if every man has got a Don Giovanni somewhere inside him.

Trade is 10 times as old as farming.

How much more generous it would be if, instead of writing parables about childhood wounds, psychologists were to accept that some differences between the sexes just are, that they are in the nature of the beasts, because each sex has an evolved tendency to develop that way in response to experience.

This idea holds out hope that the human race will prosper mightily in the years ahead-because ideas are having sex with each other as never before.