Shikher

“Where Mark Zuckerberg wants to help you share baby photos, Musk wants to . . . well . . . save the human race from self-imposed or accidental annihilation.”
― Ashlee Vance, Elon Musk: Inventing the Future

“Early success is a terrible teacher.”
― Chris Hadfield, An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth

“Whereas traditionally the family was the main matchmaker, today it’s the market that tailors our romantic and sexual preferences, and then lends a hand in providing for them – for a fat fee. Previously bride and groom met in the family living room, and money passed from the hands of one father to another. Today courting is done at bars and cafés, and money passes from the hands of lovers to waitresses. Even more money is transferred to the bank accounts of fashion designers, gym managers, dieticians, cosmeticians and plastic surgeons, who help us arrive at the café looking as similar as possible to the market’s ideal of beauty.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

“The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads,” a former math whiz at Facebook recently lamented.33”
― Rutger Bregman, Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World