The best things in the world have always sprung up by accident. Take the internet, for instance

Since no one has bothered to ask what my must-read book of last year was I’m going to tell you here: it’s Matt Ridley’s Evolution of Everything.

I don’t think it has appeared on nearly so many recommended lists as his previous bestsellers Genome and The Rational Optimist, nor has it been so widely reviewed.

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The best things in the world have always sprung up by accident. Take the internet, for instance

And almost everything bad is the result of utopians trying to plan the world into a better state

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