Dan Brown is a character from ‘Foucault’s Pendulum!’ I invented him. He shares my characters’ fascinations – the world conspiracy of Rosicrucians, Masons, and Jesuits. The role of the Knights Templar. The hermetic secret. The principle that everything is connected. I suspect Dan Brown might not even exist. Umberto Eco Read Quote
The mobile phone… is a tool for those whose professions require a fast response, such as doctors or plumbers. Umberto Eco Read Quote
The book is like the spoon, scissors, the hammer, the wheel. Once invented, it cannot be improved. You cannot make a spoon that is better than a spoon… The book has been thoroughly tested, and it’s very hard to see how it could be improved on for its current purposes. Umberto Eco Read Quote
Semiotics is a general theory of all existing languages… all forms of communication – visual, tactile, and so on… There is general semiotics, which is a philosophical approach to this field, and then there are many specific semiotics. Umberto Eco Read Quote
Poetry is not a matter of feelings, it is a matter of language. It is language which creates feelings. Umberto Eco Read Quote
Fear prophets and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them. Umberto Eco Read Quote
I have to admit that I only read ‘War and Peace’ when I was 40. But I knew the basics before then. Umberto Eco Read Quote
A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands. so the librarian protects the books not only against mankind but also against nature and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion. Umberto Eco Read Quote
