… is from page 135 of Matt Ridley’s 2015 book, The Evolution of Everything:
As Nassem Taleb insists, from the methods used by thirteenth-century architects building cathedrals to the development of modern computing, the story of technology is a story of rules of thumb, learning by apprenticeship, chance discoveries, trial and error, tinkering – what the French call ‘bricolage‘.
Technology comes from technology far more often than from science. And science comes from technology too.
