A great problem of the internet is how to filter information, how to discard what is not relevant or what is silly and to keep only the important information.

Contemporary societies have lost the sense of the feast but have kept the obscure drive for it.

Any fact becomes important when it's connected to another.

The wise man does not discriminate; he gathers all the shreds of light, from wherever they may come.

Well, 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.

And what would we be, we sinful creatures, without fear, perhaps the most foresighted, the most loving of the divine gifts?

The real hero is always a hero by mistake.