“There are no gods in the universe, no nations, no money, no human rights, no laws, and no justice outside the common imagination of human beings.”
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
“Large numbers of strangers can cooperate successfully by believing in common myths.”
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
“Increasing the supply of information is not, of course, a guaranteed way to foster clear understanding,”
― God's Fury, England's Fire: A New History of the English Civil Wars
― God's Fury, England's Fire: A New History of the English Civil Wars
“Dataists believe that humans can no longer cope with the immense flows of data, hence they cannot distil data into information, let alone into knowledge or wisdom.”
― Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow
― Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow
“You could never convince a monkey to give you a banana by promising him limitless bananas after death in monkey heaven.”
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
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