The problem with the Internet is that it gives you everything

Umberto Eco
240 citations
The problem with the Internet is that it gives you everything - reliable material and crazy material. So the problem becomes, how do you discriminate?
Humanity
10

More Author Quotes

The art of splitting hairs four ways. This is the department of useless techniques. Mechanical Avunculogratulation, for example, is how to build machines for greeting uncles. We're not sure, though, … ▶
Sometimes you say things with a smile with the precise intention of making it clear that you are not being serious, and are only kidding. If I salute a friend with a smile and say, How are you, you o … ▶
I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren't trying to teach us. We are formed by little scraps of wisdom. ✨ Umberto Eco (2007). Foucault's Pend … ▶
To read fiction means to play a game by which we give sense to the immensity of things that happened, are happening, or will happen in the actual world. By reading narrative, we escape the anxiety th … ▶
You are always born under the wrong sign, and to live in this world properly you have to rewrite your own horoscope day by day. ✨ Umberto Eco (2007). Foucault's Pendulum, p.60, Houghton Mifflin Harco … ▶

The problem with the Internet is that it gives you everything - reliable material and crazy material. So the problem becomes, how do you discriminate?

More Author Quotes

Most Cited Authors

The Best Quotes

Most Liked Authors

Curated Author Quotes