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

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

Umberto Eco
Crazy, Giving, Problem

The Internet gives us everything and forces us to filter it not by the workings of culture, but with our own brains. This risks creating six billion separate encyclopedias, which would prevent any common understanding whatsoever.

Umberto Eco
Creating, Giving, Understanding
Jean-Claude Carrière, Umberto Eco (2011). “This is Not the End of the Book: A conversation curated by Jean-Philippe de Tonnac”, p.82, Random House

And we, inhabitants of the great coral of the Cosmos, believe the atom (which still we cannot see) to be full matter, whereas, it too, like everything else, is but an embroidery of voids in the Void, and we give the name of being, dense and even eternal, to that dance of inconsistencies, that infinite extension that is identified with absolute Nothingness and that spins from its own non-being the illusion of everything.

Umberto Eco
Believe, Names, Giving
Umberto Eco (2006). “The Island of the Day Before”, p.487, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

One of the problems I have always discussed is the refusal to distinguish between comment and fact. The newspaper wraps every fact into a comment. It is impossible to give mere fact without establishing point of view.

Umberto Eco
Views, Giving, Facts
Interview with Chris Wallace, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 2, 2015.

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