Shimjith Singh

“Most people wrote and received no more than a handful of letters a month and seldom felt compelled to reply immediately. Today I receive dozens of emails each day, all from people who expect a prompt reply. We thought we were saving time; instead we revved up the treadmill of life to ten times its former speed and made our days more anxious and agitated.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

“We did not domesticate wheat. It domesticated us. The word ‘domesticate’ comes from the Latin ‘domus’, which means ‘house’. Who’s the one living in a house? Not the wheat. It’s the Sapiens.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

“When the Next Big One comes, we can guess, it will likely conform to the same perverse pattern, high infectivity preceding notable symptoms. That will help it to move through cities and airports like an angel of death.”
― David Quammen, Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic

“cattle represent one of the most successful animal species ever to exist. At the same time, they are some of the most miserable animals on the planet.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind