Umberto Eco and information

This post is a collection of quotes from writer Umberto Eco (1932-2016) about information. There are 4 quotes listed below.

1. "After all, the cultivated person's first duty is to be always prepared to rewrite the encyclopaedia." (Language and Lunacy, 1998)

2. "We live for books. A sweet mission in this world dominated by disorder and decay." (The Name of the Rose, 1980)

3. "The problem with the internet is that it gives you everything - reliable material and crazy material. So the problem becomes, how do you discriminate." (AZQuotes.com)

4."Not long ago, if you wanted to seize political power in a country you had merely to control the army and the police. Today it is only in the most backward countries that fascist generals in carrying out a coup d'état, still use tanks... Today a country belongs to the person who controls communications." (Travels in Hyperreality, 1986)