Yuval Noah Harari

Historian, Sapiens author

Contemporary influential 155 sayings

Sayings by Yuval Noah Harari

Humans are now hackable animals.

2020 — World Economic Forum Annual Meeting
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We are probably one of the last generations of Homo sapiens.

2015 — TED Talk: What explains the rise of humans?
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The greatest danger is not that we will be controlled by machines, but that we will become machines.

2018 — Interview with The Guardian
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Fiction is not merely a distraction. It is what allows us to cooperate on a large scale.

2011 — Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
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Humans control the world because we are the only animals that can cooperate flexibly in large numbers.

2011 — Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
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The most important thing for us to realize is that we are not individuals, we are dividuals.

2020 — World Economic Forum Annual Meeting
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Dataism declares that the universe consists of data flows, and the value of any phenomenon or entity is determined by its contribution to data processing.

2016 — Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow
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In a world deluged by irrelevant information, clarity is power.

2018 — 21 Lessons for the 21st Century
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We are terrible at predicting the future, but we are excellent at creating it.

2018 — Interview
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Humans are not rational. We are story-telling animals.

2011 — Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
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The real question is not how to stop AI, but how to control it.

2018 — Interview with The Verge
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We are moving from a world of 'truth' to a world of 'meaning'.

2015 — TED Talk: What explains the rise of humans?
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The biggest threat to humanity is not climate change, but meaningless.

2018 — Interview with The Guardian
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Happiness is not a natural state. It's a fleeting moment.

2011 — Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
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The future is not something we discover, it's something we create.

2018 — Interview
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We are constantly upgrading ourselves, but we don't know what we want to upgrade ourselves into.

2015 — TED Talk: What explains the rise of humans?
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The power of algorithms is not just to predict, but to prescribe.

2016 — Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow
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We are moving from a world of 'free will' to a world of 'free algorithms'.

2020 — World Economic Forum Annual Meeting
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The greatest challenge facing humanity is to figure out what to do with ourselves.

2018 — Interview with The Guardian
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We are getting better at controlling the external world, but worse at controlling our inner world.

2018 — 21 Lessons for the 21st Century
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