“The seed algorithm may initially be developed by humans, but as it grows it follows its own path, going where no human… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
Traditionally, life has been divided into two main parts: a period of learning followed by a period of working. Very soon, this… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Any large-scale human cooperation - whether a modern state, a medieval church, an ancient city or an archaic tribe - is rooted… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Having secured unprecedented levels of prosperity, health and harmony, and given our past record and our current values, humanity’s next targets are… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“The most common reaction of the human mind to achievement is not satisfaction, but craving for more. Humans are always on the… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“There was nothing special about humans. Nobody, least of all humans themselves, had any inkling that their descendants would one day walk… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“large systems of cooperation that involve not twenty-two but thousands or even millions of humans require the handling and storage of huge… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“An objective phenomenon exists independently of human consciousness and human beliefs. Radioactivity, for example, is not a myth. Radioactive emissions occurred long… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Some experts and thinkers, such as Nick Bostrom, warn that humankind is unlikely to suffer this degradation, because once artificial intelligence surpasses… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“The great political, artistic, and religious project of modernity has been to find a meaning to life that is not rooted in… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
Having raised humanity above the beastly level of survival struggles, we will now aim to upgrade humans into gods and turn Homo… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Traditionally, life has been divided into two main parts: a period of learning followed by a period of working. Very soon this… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“As far as we can tell from a purely scientific viewpoint, human life has absolutely no meaning. Humans are the outcome of… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“The humanities and social sciences devote most of their energies to explaining exactly how the imagined order is woven into the tapestry… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Does might make right? Is human life more precious than porcine life simply because the human collective is more powerful than the… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“The crucial importance of human expectations has far-reaching implications for understanding the history of happiness. If happiness depended only on objective conditions… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Homo Sapiens Loses Control Can humans go on running the world and giving it meaning? How do biotechnology and artificial intelligence threaten… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“We assume that a large brain, the use of tools, superior learning abilities and complex social structures are huge advantages. Only in… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
Fundamentally, mankind was unimportant in the ecological system. Then, in one fell swoop, an evolutionary blink of an eye, the human race… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Dataism may sideline humans by shifting from a homo-centric to a data-centric view.” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Humankind paid for its lofty vision and industrious hands with backaches and stiff necks. Women paid extra. An upright gait required narrower… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“If I look really deep within myself, the seeming unity that I take for granted dissolves into a cacophony of conflicting voices,… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Sapiens instinctively divide humanity into two parts, ‘we’ and ‘they’. We are people like you and me, who share our language, religion… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“If the whole universe is pegged to the human experience, what will happen once the human experience becomes just another designable product,… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“So in the struggle against natural calamities such as AIDS and Ebola, the scales are tipping in humanity’s favour. But what about… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“For similar reasons, archaic humans did not initiate any revolutions. As far as we can tell, changes in social patterns, the invention of new… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Today the main source of wealth is knowledge. And whereas you can conquer oil fields through war, you cannot acquire knowledge that way.” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“How do you cause people to believe in an imagined order such as Christianity, democracy or capitalism? First, you never admit that the order… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
I think the basic thing that happened is we have lost our story. Humans think in stories, and we try to make sense of… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Whereas chimpanzees spend five hours a day chewing raw food, a single hour suffices for people eating cooked food. The advent of cooking enabled… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Whereas liberalism merged with the milder versions of nationalism to protect the unique experiences of each human community, evolutionary humanists such as Hitler identified… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Corporations, money and nations exist only in our imagination. We invented them to serve us; why do we find ourselves sacrificing our lives in… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Small children in affluent societies often dislike showering, and it takes them years of education and parental discipline to adopt this supposedly attractive custom.… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Ever more scholars see cultures as a kind of mental infection or parasite, with humans as its unwitting host. Organic parasites, such as viruses,… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Soviet Communism was a fanatical and missionary religion. A devout Communist could not be a Christian or a Buddhist, and was expected to spread… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Whereas religion asks us to believe in something, money asks us to believe that other people believe in something” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
