Gerald

“Panic is a form of hubris. It comes from the smug feeling that one knows exactly where the world is heading: down. Bewilderment is more humble and therefore more clear-sighted.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century

“Religions, rites, and rituals will remain important as long as the power of humankind rests on mass cooperation and as long as mass cooperation rests on belief in shared fictions.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century

“Once AI makes better decisions than we do about careers and perhaps even relationships, our concept of humanity and of life will have to change.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century

“Because, after all, there really was something ridiculously out of proportion between the verdict such certainty was based on and the imperturbable march of events from the moment the verdict was announced. The fact that the sentence had been read at eight o’clock at night and not at five o’clock, the fact that it could have been an entirely different one, the fact that it had been decided by men who change their underwear, the fact that it had been handed down in the name of some vague notion called the French (or German, or Chinese) people—all of it seemed to detract from the seriousness of the decision.”
― Albert Camus, The Stranger