Jared Diamond

Citas

• “Compressing 13,000 years of history on all continents into a 400-page book works out to an average of about one page per continent per 150 years, making brevity and simplification inevitable.”

• “A flip answer would be, "The single most important problem is our misguided focus on identifying the single most important problem!"”

• “History, as well as life itself, is complicated; neither life nor history is an enterprise for those who seek simplicity and consistency.”

• “[..] the values to which people cling most stubbornly under inappropriate conditions are those values that were previously the source of their greatest triumphs.”

• “Put another way, the chimpanzees' closest relative is not the gorilla but humans.”