Umberto Eco Quotes on Communication

3 quotes

  1. The day after the fall of Khrushchev, the editors of Pravda, Izvestiia, the heads of the radio and television were replaced; the army wasn't called out. Today a country belongs to the person who controls communications.

  2. Semiotics is in principle the discipline studying everything which can be used in order to lie. If something cannot be used to tell a lie, conversely it cannot be used to tell the truth: it cannot in fact be used 'to tell' at all.

  3. I don't even have an e-mail address. I have reached an age where my main purpose is not to receive messages.

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