This, in fact, is the power of the imagination, which, combining the memory of gold with that of the mountain, can compose… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
I am firmly of the opinion that the Macintosh is Catholic and that DOS is Protestant. Indeed, the Macintosh is counterreformist and… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
I started to write [The Name of the Rose] in March of 1978, moved by a seminal idea. I wanted to poison… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
The print does not always have the same shape as the body that impressed it, and it doesn't always derive from the… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
An idea you have might not be original. But by creating a novel out of that idea you can make it original. — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
A human best, which is very little. Its hard to accept the idea that there cannot be an order in the universe… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
True learning must not be content with ideas, which are, in fact, signs, but must discover things in their individual truth. — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Only an unhinged movie survives as a disconnected series of images, of peaks, of visual icebergs. It should display not one central… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
I think that at a certain age, say fifteen or sixteen, poetry is like masturbation. But later in life good poets burn their early… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Followers of the occult believe in only what they already know, and in those things that confirm what they have already learned. — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“This has nothing to do with realism (even if it explains also realism). A completely real world can be constructed, in which asses fly… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“…there’s nothing in this world that demands more caution than the truth. To tell the truth is like leeching one’s own heart...” — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
The book is like the spoon, scissors, the hammer, the wheel. Once invented, it cannot be improved. You cannot make a spoon that is… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“No algorithm exists for the metaphor, nor can a metaphor be produced by means of a computer’s precise instructions, no matter what the volume… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
With all of its defects, the global market makes war less likely, even between the USA and China. — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
The Fundamental Principle that governs - or ought to govern -human affairs if we wish to avoid misunderstandings, conflicts, or pointless utopias, is negotiation. — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
American coffee can be a pale solution served at a temperature of 100 degrees centigrade in plastic thermos cups, usually obligatory in railroad stations… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Listening doesn't mean trying to understand. Anything, however trifling, may be of use one day. What matters is to know something that others don't… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
They say that a cat, if it falls from a window and hits its nose, can lose its sense of smell and then, because… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
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