All Quotes

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

We can suspend disbelief about Harry Potter, and we do the same thing with God, and we do the same thing with human rights, and we do the same thing with money. ”

We control the world basically because we are the only animals that can cooperate flexibly in very large numbers. And if you examine any large-scale human cooperation, you will always find that it is based on some fiction like the nation, like money, like human rights. ”

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

Every day, I absorb countless data bits through emails, phone calls, and articles; process the data; and transmit back new bits through more emails, phone calls, and articles. I don't really know where I fit into the great scheme of things and how my bits of data connect with the bits produced by billions of other humans and computers. ”

How do you cause people to believe in an imagined order such as Christianity, democracy, or capitalism? First, you never admit that the order is imagined. ”

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

Humans have two kinds of abilities: physical and cognitive. ”

I'm not a very glamorous person. I like to just sit alone in a room and read a book or meditate. ”

For thousands of years, we have gained the power to control the world outside us but not to control the world inside. You could stop a river from flowing, but you could not stop your body from becoming old. You could kill mosquitoes, but you could not kill annoying thoughts buzzing inside your head. ”