Prateek Gupta

“People today spend a great deal of money on holidays abroad because they are true believers in the myths of romantic consumerism.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

“How many young college graduates have taken demanding jobs in high-powered firms, vowing that they will work hard to earn money that will enable them to retire and pursue their real interests when they are thirty-five? But by the time they reach that age, they have large mortgages, children to school, houses in the suburbs that necessitate at least two cars per family, and a sense that life is not worth living without really good wine and expensive holidays abroad. What are they supposed to do, go back to digging up roots? No, they double their efforts and keep slaving away.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

“When looking at the same sky, people in mature industries see clouds where people in immature industries see pie.”
― Peter Lynch, One Up On Wall Street: How To Use What You Already Know To Make Money In

“Technology, I said before, is most powerful when it enables transitions—between linear and circular motion (the wheel), or between real and virtual space (the Internet). Science,”
― Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Gene: An Intimate History