Yuval Noah Harari

In the twenty-first century, fiction might become the most potent force on earth.

Buddha achieved more profound insights into the workings of his mind than anybody else in history.

The real question is not 'what do we want to become?', but 'what do we want to want?'

Money is the most universal and most efficient system of mutual trust ever devised.

The greatest scientific discovery was the discovery of ignorance.

We study history not to know the future but to widen our horizons.

Facebook can know you better than your mother does.

The liberal story is the most successful story in history.

Silicon Valley is creating a new religion—Dataism—that worships data instead of gods.

The most interesting place in the world from a religious perspective is Silicon Valley.

It's easier to hack a living organism than to understand why it wanted to be hacked in the first place.

The key question of the 21st century is what to do with all the useless people.

We are more powerful than ever before, but have very little idea what to do with all that power.

Human rights are just like heaven and hell—they are a fictional story.

The most interesting political experiment of our time is North Korea.

The only place where communism actually worked was on the collective farm of the human mind.

The history of ethics is a sad tale of wonderful ideals that nobody can live up to.

Google and Facebook will be able to hack the human brain.

The most important technology of the 21st century will be biotechnology.

The free market is the most successful religion in history.