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“If Marx came back to life today, he would probably urge his few remaining disciples to devote less time to reading Das Kapital and more time to studying the Internet and the human genome.”
― Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow
― Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow
“Behind this monstrous shield, liberal democracy and the free market managed to hold out in their last bastions, and Westerners could enjoy sex, drugs and rock and roll, as well as washing machines, refrigerators and televisions. Without nukes, there would have been no Woodstock, no Beatles and no overflowing supermarkets. But in the mid-1970s it seemed that nuclear weapons notwithstanding, the future belonged to socialism.”
― Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow
― Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow
“In fact, researchers have settled on what they believe is the magic number for true expertise: ten thousand hours.”
― Outliers: The Story of Success
― Outliers: The Story of Success
“For thousands of years priests, rabbis and muftis explained that humans cannot overcome famine, plague and war by their own efforts. Then along came the bankers, investors and industrialists, and within 200 years managed to do exactly that.”
― Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow
― Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow
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