Considering the way evolution works, it should not be surprising if every man has got a Don Giovanni somewhere inside him.
Matt RidleyBecause it is a monopoly, government brings inefficiency and stagnation to most things it runs; government agencies pursue the inflation of their budgets rather than the service of their customers; pressure groups form an unholy alliance with agencies to extract more money from taxpayers for their members. Yet despite all this, most clever people still call for government to run more things and assume that if it did so, it would somehow be more perfect, more selfless, next time.
Matt RidleyIntelligence will become more and more collective; innovation and order will become more and more bottom-up.
Matt RidleySimple determinism, whether of the genetic or environmental kind, is a depressing prospect for those with a fondness for free will.
Matt Ridley