Homo Deus

The modern world does not believe in purpose, only in cause. If modernity has a motto, it is ‘shit happens

Historians study the past not in order to repeat it, but in order to be liberated from it.

In ancient times having power meant having access to data. Today having power means knowing what to ignore.

The most common reaction of the human mind to achievement is not satisfaction, but craving for more

Eating ice cream is enjoyable. Finding true love is more enjoyable. Do you think that if you just eat enough ice cream, the accumulated pleasure could ever equal the rapture of true love?

You may not agree with the idea that organisms are algorithms, and that giraffes, tomatoes and human beings are just different methods for processing data. But you should know that this is current scientific dogma, and that it is changing our world beyond recognition.

We have more choice than ever before, but no matter what we choose, we have lost the ability to really pay attention to it.

For the first time in history, more people die today from eating too much than from eating too little; more people die from old age than from infectious diseases; and more people commit suicide than are killed by soldiers, terrorists and criminals combined.

happiness is nothing but pleasure and freedom from pain, and that beyond pleasure and pain there is no good and no evil

The most interesting emerging religion is Dataism, which venerates neither gods nor man – it worships data.