John Stossel on How Ideas Reproduce

An idea walks into a bar. She meets another idea.
They get together, and nine months later (or maybe it’s nine
minutes or seconds? It’s not clear how it works with ideas), a new
idea is born. A baby idea with the best traits of both
parents. When this happens a lot, everyone gets smarter and
the world gets better. “It’s a weird concept,” writes John Stossel,
“but the more I think about it, the more right it seems. I learned
it from British journalist Matt Ridley, a recent guest on
my Fox Business show.”