Bobby

“From a Dataist perspective, we may interpret the entire human species as a single data-processing system, with individual humans serving as its chips. If so, we can also understand the whole of history as a process of improving the efficiency of this system...”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow

“They might have recognized in their strange companion what some of today's middle-aged recognize in the young electronics visionaries... a man who, though part of their world, still had a view that was somehow larger than theirs, that he had firm sight of a future that he somehow knew was better, as well as being a future that was definably different and, most crucially, utterly unlike the world of the present.”
― Simon Winchester, The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology

“If any scientist wants to argue that subjective experiences are irrelevant, their challenge is to explain why torture or rape are wrong without reference to any subjective experience.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow

“Knowledge that does not change behavior is useless. But knowledge that changes behavior quickly loses its relevance.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow