“[A TV commercial] crossed my desk in 1986. It came with a press release boasting about an enormous production budget employed in… — Bob Garfield Copy Share Image
“As Umberto Eco might say: for communicating, language is perfect; there could be nothing better. And yet, language doesn’t say everything. The… — Laurent Binet Copy Share Image
“What constitutes the various species? [...] Here we come up against the perennial question of human thought, which even evolutionism cannot evade:… — Christoph Schönborn Copy Share Image
“Ok now--I don't read "all the time." Remember, that these ratings are over quite a while. I'll try to put in some… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“Rachel Ries is a wonderful singer/performer/songwriter who writes her music with a literary and poetic style. In an interview with Amanda Miller… — Rachel Ries Copy Share Image
“The writer Umberto Eco belongs to that small class of scholars who are encyclopedic, insightful, and nondull. He is the owner of… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Umberto Eco is the owner of a large personal library of almost 30,000 books that he has not read. [To him] read… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
“The novelist Umberto Eco famously kept what the writer Nassim Taleb called an “anti-library,” a vast collection of books he had not… — Pamela Paul Copy Share Image
I teach 18- to 21-year-olds - the 'Harry Potter' generation. They grew up as voracious readers, reading books in this exploding genre.… — Deborah Harkness Copy Share Image
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