Numero zero Quotes

“Losers, like autodidacts, always know much more than winners. If you want to win, you need to know just one thing and not to waste your time on anything else: the pleasures of erudition are reserved for losers. The more a person knows, the more things have gone wrong.”
― Umberto Eco, Numero Zero

“Los perdedores, como los autodidactas, tienen siempre conocimientos más vastos que los ganadores. Si quieres ganar tienes que saber una cosa sola y no perder tiempo en sabértelas todas; el placer de la erudición está reservado a los perdedores. Cuanto más sabe uno, es que peor le han ido las cosas.”
― Umberto Eco, Número Cero

“If you want to win, you need to know just one thing and not to waste your time on anything else: the pleasures of erudition are reserved for losers. The more a person knows, the more things have gone wrong.”
― Umberto Eco, Numero Zero

“It's true, I'd never understood whether this vogue for apologising is a sign of humility or of impudence: you do something you shouldn't have done, then you apologise and wash your hands of it. It reminds me of the old joke about a cowboy riding across the prairie who hears a voice from heaven telling him to go to Abilene, then at Abilene the voice tells him to go into the saloon and put all his money on number five. Tempted by the voice, he obeys, number eighteen comes up, and the voice murmur, Too bad, we've lost.”
― Umberto Eco, Numero zero

“إذا كنت تريد أن تتفوق فعليك أن تعرف شيئا بعينه دون إضاعة الوقت في معرفة كل شيء”
― أمبرتو إيكو, Numero zero

“I dreamed what all losers dream, about one day writing a book that would bring me fame and fortune.”
― Umberto Eco, Numero zero

“I perdenti, come gli autodidatti, hanno sempre conoscenze più vaste dei vincenti, se vuoi vincere devi sapere una cosa sola e non perdere tempo a saperle tutte, il piacere dell’erudizione è riservato ai perdenti.”
― Umberto Eco, Numero zero

“أنا لم أفهم البتة هل تشير موضة الأعتذار هذه إلى تيار من التواضع أو تشير بالعكس إلى تيار من الوقاحة : أنت تقوم بفعل لا يليق أن تقوم به ثم تطلب المعذرة و تنفض يديك منه”
― أمبرتو إيكو, Numero zero

“الفاشلون - شأنهم شأن العصاميّين - يملكون معارفَ أكثر من المُتفوّقين ، إذا كنتَ تريد أن تتفوَّق فعليك أن تعرف شيئًا بعينه ، دون إضاعة الوقت في معرفة كل شيء ؛ متعة المعرفة مخصّصة للفاشلين ، كلّما أكثرتَ مِن معرفة الأشياء ، سارت الأشياء في غير طريقها”
― Umberto Eco, Numero zero

“...most of them won't have a book in the house, though, when they have to, they'll talk about the latest book that's selling millions of copies around the world. Our readers may not read books, but they are fascinated by great eccentric painters who sell for billions.”
― Umberto Eco, Numero zero

“Humbësit ashtu si autodidaktët kanë gjithnjë njohuri më të mëdha se fitimtarët. Nëse dëshiron të jesh fitimtar, duhet të dish vetëm një gjë e të mos humbasësh kohën për të mësuar gjithçka. Kënaqësia e erudicionit është vetëm për humbësit. Sa më shumë të dish, aq më keq mund të të shkojnë gjërat.”
― Umberto Eco, Numero zero

“تجري الامور في الجامعة بطريقة معاكسة لجريها في العالم العادي ، فليس الابناء هم الذين يمقتون آباءهم بل الآباء هم الذين يمقتون أبناءهم”
― أمبرتو إيكو, Numero zero

“نحن نعيش في عالم من الكذب، وإذا علمت أنهم يكذبون عليك، فينبغي لك أن تشك دائمًا”
― أمبرتو إيكو, Numero zero

“فقدت كل يقين، ما عدا اليقين بأنه يوجد دائمًا وراء ظهرك شخص يريد خداعك”
― أمبرتو إيكو, Numero zero

“استعملوا دائمًا كلمة «سيد» ، لا «دكتور» أو «حضرة» ، عبارة «سيد» أشنع سبّة في بلادنا”
― Umberto Eco, Numero zero

“تفكّرتُ في مقولةٍ نُسِبَت إلى مديرِ أوركسترا ، عُرِف بلسانه اللاذع ، متحدِّثًا عن عازف «فلان في جنسِهِ عظيم ، فلان مِن جنسِ القذارة»”
― Umberto Eco, Numero zero

“الشكوك ليست أبدًا مغالاة ، الشك ، دائمًا الشك ، بهذه الطريقة وحدها تصل إلى الحقيقة”
― Umberto Eco, Numero zero

“The point is that newspapers are not there for spreading news but for covering it up. X happens, you have to report it, but it causes embarrassment for too many people, so in the same edition you add some shock headlines - mother kills four children, savings at risk of going up in smoke, letter from Garibaldi insulting his lieutenant Nino Bixio discovered, etc. - so news drowns in a great sea of information.”
― Umberto Eco, Numero zero

“The book has to give the idea of another kind of newspaper, has to show how I labored away for a year to create a model of journalism independent of all pressure, implying that the venture failed because it was impossible to have a free voice”
― Umberto Eco, Numero zero

“A daily newspaper is destined to become like a weekly magazine. We'll be talking about what might happen tomorrow, with feature articles, investigative supplements, unexpected predictions...”
― Umberto Eco, Numero zero

“But it was the newspapers that called John XXIII the Good Pope, and the people followed suit.” “That’s right. Newspapers teach people how to think,” Simei said. “But do newspapers follow trends or create trends?” “They do both, Signorina Fresia. People don’t know what the trends are, so we tell them, then they know. But let’s not get too involved in philosophy—we’re professionals. Carry on, Colonna.”
― Umberto Eco, Numero Zero

“المشكلة هي أنك لا تقبل الفكرة و تواصل العيش و أنت مقتنع بأنك في يوم من الأيام ستجتاز كل الأمتحانات ... واذا عاش المرء بآمال مستحيله فهو فاشل و عندما تفطن الى ذلك عندئذ تستسلم للقدر”
― أمبرتو إيكو, Numero zero

“حتىٰ الآن لا تصلح الهواتف الجوَّالة إلَّا للأزواج الخائنين ، الذين يتمنَّوْن تجنُّب استخدام هواتف المنزل ، و ربّما للسمكريّين أيضًا ، لأنّها تتيحُ الاتصال بهم في أيَّةِ لحظة في أثناء سَيْرهم”
― Umberto Eco, Numero zero

“لا شيءَ أروعُ مِن الالتقاء الجميل لفاشِلَيْن”
― Umberto Eco, Numero zero

“فقدتُ كلَّ يقين ، ما عدا اليقين بأنّه يوجد دائمًا وراء ظهرك شخصٌ يريدُ خداعَك”
― Umberto Eco, Numero zero

“Por que Deus é o ser perfeitíssimo? Porque, se fosse imperfeitíssimo, seria meu primo Gustavo.”
― Umberto Eco, Numero zero

“It's not the news that makes the newspaper, but the newspaper that makes the news.”
― Umberto Eco, Numero zero

“I'd lost all faith in everything, except for the certainty that there's always someone behind our backs waiting to deceive us.”
― Umberto Eco, Numero zero

“Deception is a state of mind and the mind of the state (attributed to James Jesus Angleton)”
― Umberto Eco, Numero zero

“Do we really have to talk about professionalism? Everyone here is a professional. A master builder who puts up a wall that hasn't collapsed is certainly acting professionally, but professionalism ought to be the norm, and we should only be talking about the dodgy builder who puts up a wall that doesn't collapse....This insistence on professionalism, that it is something special, makes it sound as if people are generally lousy workers.”
― Umberto Eco, Numero zero