We have a limit, a very discouraging, humiliating limit: death. That's why we like all the things that we assume have no limits and, therefore, no end. It's a way of escaping thoughts about death. We like lists because we don't want to die.
Umberto EcoThere are more people than you think who want to have a challenging experience, in which they are obliged to reflect about the past.
Umberto EcoThe function of memory is not only to preserve, but also to throw away. If you remembered everything from your entire life, you would be sick.
Umberto EcoI don't see the point of having 80 million people online if all they are doing in the end is talking to ghosts in the suburbs.
Umberto Eco