The twentieth century was the bankruptcy of the social utopia; the twenty-first will be that of the technological one.

Umberto Eco is the owner of a large personal library of almost 30,000 books that he has not read. [To him] read books are far less valuable than unread ones.

If you see fraud and do not say fraud, you are a fraud.

They will envy you for your success, your wealth, for your intelligence, for your looks, for your status - but rarely for your wisdom.

Academia is to knowledge what prostitution is to love.

In the United States large corporations control some members of Congress. All this does is delay the corporation’s funeral at our expense.

This is the tragedy of modernity: as with neurotically overprotective parents, those trying to help are often hurting us the most.