Memory is a stopgap for humans, for whom time flies and what is passed is passed. — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
We are always remaking history. Our memory is always an interpretive reconstruction of the past, so is perspective. — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
My generation knew pretty well what happened 50 years before our birth. Now I follow all the quiz programs because they are… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
The function of memory is not only to preserve, but also to throw away. If you remembered everything from your entire life,… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
You tell me these two were my parents, so now I know but it's a memory that you've given me. I'll remember… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“What am I?...I say so inasmuch as I am the memory of all my past moments, the sum of everything I remember.… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“I was dozing, and the clock woke me. I didn’t hear the first few chimes distinctly, that is to say, I didn’t… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
I have a good memory. But I would be interested in memory even if I had a bad memory, because I believe… — 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
