Quote of the Day

“Social media give legions of idiots the right to speak when they once only spoke at a bar after a glass of wine, without harming the community.”

• Umberto Eco

Umberto Eco (5 January 1932 – 19 February 2016) was an Italian medievalist, philosopher, semiotician, novelist, cultural critic, and political and social commentator. In English, he is best known for his popular 1980 novel The Name of the Rose, a historical mystery combining semiotics in fiction with biblical analysis.