Umberto Eco Quotes

One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.

We're not ever interested in repeating ourselves or doing what people expect us to do, it's such a turn off.

I was in a taxi the other night, and we started talking about life and the taxi driver goes, 'Chaos and creativity go together. If you lose one per cent of your chaos, you lose your creativity.' I said that's the most brilliant thing I've heard. I needed to hear that years ago.

Chaos breeds geniuses. It offers a man something to be a genius about.

You can't put me in a box, because then it's just like, you're not gonna get anything.

What makes jazz different is that you can't predict it, it's all about freedom. Just when you think you know what you're going to hear there'll be a left turn, a jazz musician will change it up.

It's always been my intention to never be boxed in. I never like to do something that it feels like I've done before.

There's something about a sign-off that seems predictable. I just say whatever comes to my mind, to the pleasure and horror of the control room, I'm sure.

In chaos, there is fertility.

Everybody's a mad scientist, and life is their lab.

That's why I love improvisational theater so much - you do it [scene] once and then it's done. You don't get bogged down with a lot of preplanning and repetition. If I do something and it gets a laugh, I don't want to do it again. Why bother? I'm just repeating myself. It's boring.

Even if the project requires you to have all the ducks in a line, I can't do that. I don't create way.

No one is in charge of this process, this is what makes history so interesting, it's a runaway freight train on a dark and stormy night.

Miles is... Miles; close to a force of nature, climbing up out of his own pages and escaping subordination to any opinion of mine.

I'm not interested in a pretty world. It's boring to me.

I write [music] as a sow piddles.

The thing that I like about public-access is that I am often in the middle of chaos.

Any idiot can be complicated. It takes a genius to be simple.

You have to systematically create confusion, it sets creativity free. Everything that is contradictory creates life

Imagination is the mad boarder.

Creativity is born of chaos, even if it is somewhat difficult to glimpse the possibilities in the midst of the confusion.

In times of widespread chaos and confusion, it has been the duty of more advanced human beings--artists, scientists, clowns and philosophers--to create order. In times such as ours, however, when there is too much order, too much management, too much programming and control, it becomes the duty of superior men and women to fling their favorite monkey wrenches into the machinery. To relive the repression of the human spirit, they must sow doubt and disruption.

I don't want to be predictable at all.

One of the advantages of being disorganized is the joy of discovery.

To live in a fully predictable world is not to be a man.