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“ ”If you want to use television to teach somebody, you must first teach
them how to use television.
About Umberto Eco
Umberto Eco (5 January 1932 – 19 February 2016) was an Italian philosopher, semiotician, essayist, literary critic, and novelist, most famous for his novel The Name of the Rose (1980), an intellectual mystery combining semiotics in fiction, biblical analysis, medieval studies and literary theory.
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Additional quotes by Umberto Eco
السذج دواب تُساق إلى المجزرة، يُستعملون عندما يراد وضع سلطة الخصم في أزمة، و يُضحى بهم عندما تنتهي الحاجة إليهم.
The rest is just sex, copulation, the perpetuation of the vile species.
... we read novels because they give us the comfortable sensation of living in worlds where the notion of truth is indisputable, while the actual world seems to be a more treacherous place.