“Regrets don’t leave. They weren’t mosquito bites. They itch for ever.”
― The Midnight Library
― The Midnight Library
“He wants to tell her that when things vanish they become something else, in death we rise again in the blades of grass, the splitting bodies of seeds.”
― The Shell Collector
― The Shell Collector
“Is it right,” Jutta says, “to do something only because everyone else is doing it?”
― All the Light We Cannot See
― All the Light We Cannot See
“How did Homo sapiens manage to cross this critical threshold, eventually founding cities comprising tens of thousands of inhabitants and empires ruling hundreds of millions? The secret was probably the appearance of fiction. Large numbers of strangers can cooperate successfully by believing in common myths. Any large-scale human cooperation – whether a modern state, a medieval church, an ancient city or an archaic tribe – is rooted in common myths that exist only in people’s collective imagination.”
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
“You want to know how super-intelligent cyborgs might treat ordinary flesh-and-blood humans? Better start by investigating how humans treat their less intelligent animal cousins. It’s not a perfect analogy, of course, but it is the best archetype we can actually observe rather than just imagine.”
― Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow
― Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow
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