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Yuval Noah Harari
“Our tendency to summon powers we cannot control stems not from individual psychology but from the unique way our species cooperates in large numbers. The main argument of this book is that humankind gains enormous power by building large networks of cooperation, but the way these networks are built predisposes us to use that power unwisely. Our problem, then, is a network problem.”
Yuval Noah Harari, Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI

Ada Limon
“Could you refuse me if I asked you to point again at the horizon, to tell me something was worth waiting for?”
Ada Limon, The Hurting Kind: Poems

Ada Limon
“Years later, back from Mexico or South America, he’d admit he was tired of history, of always discovering the ruin by ruining it, wrecking a forest for a temple, a temple that should be simply left a temple. He wanted it all to stay as it was, even if it went undiscovered. I want to honor a man who wants to hold a wild thing, only for a second, long enough to admire it fully, and then wants to watch it safely return to its life, bends to be sure the grass closes up behind it.”
Ada Limon, The Hurting Kind: Poems

Yuval Noah Harari
“stories are able to create a third level of reality: intersubjective reality. Whereas subjective things like pain exist in a single mind, intersubjective things like laws, gods, nations, corporations, and currencies exist in the nexus between large numbers of minds. More specifically, they exist in the stories people tell one another.”
Yuval Noah Harari, Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI

Yuval Noah Harari
“What the example of astrology illustrates is that errors, lies, fantasies, and fictions are information, too. Contrary to what the naive view of information says, information has no essential link to truth, and its role in history isn’t to represent a preexisting reality. Rather, what information does is to create new realities by tying together disparate things—whether couples or empires. Its defining feature is connection rather than representation, and information is whatever connects different points into a network.”
Yuval Noah Harari, Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI

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