Yuval Noah Harari

“We have already discussed one such example: Peugeot.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

Humans have two kinds of abilities: physical and cognitive.

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Clennon King, a black student who applied to the University of Mississippi in 1958, was forcefully committed to a mental asylum. The…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“It is like a man standing for decades on the seashore, embracing certain ‘good’ waves and trying to prevent them from disintegrating,…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries, scurvy is estimated to have claimed the lives of about 2 million sailors.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Suppose non-conscious algorithms could eventually outperform conscious intelligence in all known data-processing tasks – what, if anything, would be lost by replacing…

— Yuval Noah Harari

You take fantasies, which for thousands of years belonged to the religious realm - overcoming death or our merging with the universe…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“But humans do such things all the time. Because the Sapiens social order is imagined, humans cannot preserve the critical information for…

— Yuval Noah Harari

Nothing should be taken for granted, even if everybody believes it.

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Banks are allowed to loan $10 for every dollar they actually possess, which means that 90 percent of all the money in…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Every two species that evolved from a common ancestor, such as horses and donkeys, were at one time just two populations of…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“PRIOR TO THE Cognitive Revolution, humans of all species lived exclusively on the Afro-Asian landmass.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Most existing nations evolved only after the Industrial Revolution.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Earlier traditions usually formulated their theories in terms of stories. Modern science uses mathematics. There”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Humans are relinquishing authority to the free market, to crowd wisdom and to external algorithms partly because we cannot deal with the…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Revolutions are, by definition, unpredictable. A predictable revolution never erupts. Why”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“the growth of the modern economy might turn out to be a colossal fraud.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Henceforth, attachment to ‘my house’ and separation from the neighbours became the psychological hallmark of a much more self-centred creature.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Every religion, ideology and creed has its shadow, and no matter which creed you follow you should acknowledge your shadow and avoid…

— Yuval Noah Harari

Dollar bills have absolutely no value except in our collective imagination, but everybody believes in the dollar bill.

— Yuval Noah Harari

“What did priests, rabbis and muftis discover in the twentieth century that can be mentioned in the same breath as antibiotics, computers…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“So perhaps happiness is synchronizing one's personal delusions of meaning with the prevailing collective delusions. As long as my personal narrative is…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“When everybody uses the same oracle, and everybody believes the oracle, the oracle turns into a sovereign. So Waze must think for…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“When they enter the classroom, however, they may well discover that the algorithms have got there first. Companies such as Mindojo are…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Dataism adopts a strictly functional approach to humanity, appraising the value of human experiences according to their function in data-processing mechanisms.”

— Yuval Noah Harari