“The main handicap of authoritarian regimes in the twentieth century - the attempt to concentrate all information in one place - might become their decisive advantage in the twenty-first cenutry.”
― 21 Lessons for the 21st Century
― 21 Lessons for the 21st Century
“Feelings are thus not the opposite of rationality - they embody evolutionary rationality.”
― 21 Lessons for the 21st Century
― 21 Lessons for the 21st Century
“There is more than one kind of freedom, said Aunt Lydia. Freedom to and freedom from. In the days of anarchy, it was freedom to. Now you are being given freedom from.”
― The Handmaid's Tale
― The Handmaid's Tale
“He’s twelve years old, and this summer he learns that people will always choose a simple lie over a complicated truth, because the lie has one unbeatable advantage: the truth always has to stick to what actually happened, whereas the lie just has to be easy to believe.”
― Us Against You
― Us Against You
“This is the paradox of historical knowledge. Knowledge that does not change behaviour is useless. But knowledge that changes behaviour quickly loses its relevance.”
― Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow
― Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow
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