913 Quotes by Yuval Noah Harari

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

Ignorance is not too dangerous. If you combine it with power, then this is a toxic mix.

You have to know how to co-operate with other people if you want to stay alive and raise children. And to do that, you need to know something about them. You need to know who loves whom, who hates whom, who is sleeping with whom. Who is honest, who is a cheat.

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

Many people in their teens wonder about these big questions - what's the meaning of life, what are we doing here - then somewhere in their 20s, they seem to say, 'I'll just get married. I'll just have kids. I'll get back to that later.' But they never do. For me, it kept boiling.

Even what people take to be their most personal desires are usually programmed by the imagined order.

We did not domesticate wheat; wheat domesticated us.

Science is telling us that the reason people die is not because some god said so or because the laws of nature mandate it. People always die because of technical problems. And every technical problem has, in principle, a technical solution.

All the major problems of the world today are global in essence, and they cannot be solved unless through some kind of global cooperation. It's not just climate change, which is, like, the most obvious example people give. I think more in terms of technological disruption.