Rajesh Goradia

“Capitalism did not defeat communism because capitalism was more ethical, because individual liberties are sacred or because God was angry with the heathen communists. Rather, capitalism won the Cold War because distributed data processing works better than centralised data processing, at least in periods of accelerating technological change.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow

“I choose to want to. This is of course false. I don’t choose my desires. I only feel them, and act accordingly.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow

“In 2012 about 56 million people died throughout the world; 620,000 of them died due to human violence (war killed 120,000 people, and crime killed another 500,000). In contrast, 800,000 committed suicide, and 1.5 million died of diabetes. Sugar is now more dangerous than gunpowder.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow

“Anton Chekhov famously said that a gun appearing in the first act of a play will inevitably be fired in the third. Throughout”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow