A library's ideal function is to be a little bit like a bouquiniste's stall, a place for trouvailles.
Umberto EcoI have always been fascinated by paranoid people imagining conspiracies. I am fascinated by this in a critical way.
Umberto EcoThe Internet gives us everything and forces us to filter it not by the workings of culture, but with our own brains. This risks creating six billion separate encyclopedias, which would prevent any common understanding whatsoever.
Umberto EcoWell, Diotallevi and I are planning a reform in higher education. A School of Comparative Irrelevance, where useless or impossibe courses are given. The school's aim is to turn out scholars capable of endlessly increasing the number of unnecessary subjects.
Umberto Eco