Yuval Noah Harari best Computers Quotes – “Every day, I absorb countless data bits through emails, phone calls, and articles; process the data; and transmit back new bits through more emails, phone calls, and articles. I don’t really know where I fit into the great scheme of things and how my bits of data connect with the bits produced by billions of other humans and computers.”
Yuval Noah Harari best Computers Quotes – “Techno-humanism aims to amplify the power of humans, creating cyborgs and connecting humans to computers, but it still sees human interests and desires as the highest authority in the universe.”
Yuval Noah Harari best Computers Quotes – “People already have bionic arms and legs that work by the power of thought. And we increasingly outsource mental and communicative activities to computers. We are merging with our smartphones. Very soon, they will just be part of the body.”
Yuval Noah Harari best Communication Quotes – “The truly unique trait of ‘Sapiens’ is our ability to create and believe fiction. All other animals use their communication system to describe reality. We use our communication system to create new realities. Of course, not all fictions are shared by all humans, but at least one has become universal in our world, and this is money.”
Yuval Noah Harari best Family Quotes – “Homo sapiens is a social being, and our well-being depends to a large extent on the quality and depth of our social and family relations – and in the last 200 years, they have been disintegrating.”
Yuval Noah Harari best Failure Quotes – “Those who refuse to liberalise and globalise are doomed to failure.”
Yuval Noah Harari best Death Quotes – “You take fantasies, which for thousands of years belonged to the religious realm – overcoming death or our merging with the universe – and you suddenly start talking about them in a more technical perspective as something that can be achieved, not after you die with the help of supernatural beings, but in this very life with the help of technology.”
Yuval Noah Harari best Change Quotes – “We are all living together on a single planet, which is threatened by our own actions. And if you don’t have some kind of global cooperation, nationalism is just not on the right level to tackle the problems, whether it’s climate change or whether it’s technological disruption.”
Yuval Noah Harari best Change Quotes – “The notion of superhumans is using bioengineering and artificial intelligence to upgrade human abilities. If they use the power to change themselves, to change their own minds, their own desires, then we have no idea what they will want to do.”
Yuval Noah Harari best Anger Quotes – “Intelligence is the ability to solve problems, whereas consciousness is the ability to feel things such as pain, joy, love, and anger. Throughout history, intelligence always went hand in hand with consciousness.”
Yuval Noah Harari best Amazing Quotes – “If you take 10,000 chimpanzees and cram them together into Wembley Stadium or the Houses of Parliament, you will get chaos. But if you take 10,000 people who have never met before, they can co-operate and create amazing things.”
Yuval Noah Harari best Amazing Quotes – “Humans have an amazing capacity to believe in contradictory things. For example, to believe in an omnipotent and benevolent God but somehow excuse Him from all the suffering in the world. Or our ability to believe from the standpoint of law that humans are equal and have free will and from biology that humans are just organic machines.”
Yuval Noah Harari best Alone Quotes – “I’m not a very glamorous person. I like to just sit alone in a room and read a book or meditate.”