Gerald

“Following the Agricultural Revolution, property multiplied and with it inequality. As humans gained ownership of land, animals, plants, and tools, rigid hierarchical societies emerged, in which small elites monopolized most wealth and power for generation after generation.”
― 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

“The utter pointlessness of whatever I was doing there seized me by the throat, and all I wanted was to get it over with and get back to my cell and sleep.”
― Albert Camus, The Stranger

“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