James Brady

“We cannot explain the choices that history makes, but we can say something very important about them: history’s choices are not made for the benefit of humans.”
― Yuval Noah Harari

“For more than 2 million years, human neural networks kept growing and growing, but apart from some flint knives and pointed sticks, humans had precious little to show for it. What then drove forward the evolution of the massive human brain during those 2 million years? Frankly, we don’t know.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

“In the wake of the Cognitive Revolution, gossip helped Homo sapiens to form larger and more stable bands. But even gossip has its limits. Sociological research has shown that the maximum ‘natural’ size of a group bonded by gossip is about 150 individuals. Most people can neither intimately know, nor gossip effectively about, more than 150 human beings.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

“A truly confident person does not require arrogance, which is nothing more than a smoke screen for insecurity.”
― Amy Cuddy, Presence: Bringing Your Boldest Self to Your Biggest Challenges