Yuval Noah Harari

“Modernity is a deal. The entire contract can be summarised in a single phrase: humans agree to give up meaning in exchange for power.”

“Most people, they get overwhelmed by the religious stories, the nationalist stories, by the economic stories of the day, and take these stories to be the reality.”

“There is no limit to how much health you can provide people.”

“Traditionally, life has been divided into two main parts: a period of learning followed by a period of working. Very soon, this traditional model will become utterly obsolete, and the only w...”

“I met my husband Itzik when I got back home to Israel from Oxford in 2002. He is my Internet-of-all-Things.”

“I try to be a realist and not a pessimist or an optimist.”

“Dataism is a new ethical system that says, yes, humans were special and important because up until now they were the most sophisticated data processing system in the universe, but this is no...”

“Intelligence is the ability to solve problems, and consciousness is the ability to feel things and have subjective experiences.”

“Nothing should be taken for granted, even if everybody believes it.”

“For many centuries, even thousands of years, patriotism worked quite well. Of course, it led to wars an so forth, but we shouldn't focus too much on the bad.”

“I was taught that if you're going to study something, you must understand it deeply and be familiar with primary sources. But if you write a history of the whole world, you can't do this. Th...”

“In order to survive in a very small tribe, you needed to know how to do lots of things for yourself: how to make your tools, how to get food, and how to make your clothes - things most of us...”

“When you look at the growth of the human economy and its expected growth in the twenty-first century, I expect health will be the most important market of all. Especially as we move from a c...”

“The idea that humans will always have a unique ability beyond the reach of non-conscious algorithms is just wishful thinking.”