Il criterio era rigoroso, e credo sia lo stesso seguito dai servizi segreti:

non ci sono informazioni migliori delle altre,

il potere sta nello schedarle tutte, e poi cercare le connessioni.

Le connessioni ci sono sempre, basta volerle trovare .

Umberto Eco

Il pendolo di Foucault

Milano 1988

Das Kriterium war streng, und ich glaube, es ist dasselbe, das auch die Geheimdienste anwenden:

Keine Information ist weniger wert als die andere,

das Geheimnis besteht darin, sie alle zu sammeln und dann Zusammenh�nge

zwischen ihnen zu suchen.

Zusammenh�nge gibt es immer, man mu� sie nur finden wollen.

Umberto Eco

Das Foucaultsche Pendel

deutsche �bersetzung von Burkhart Kroeber, M�nchen 1989

I had a strict rule, which I think secret services follow, too:

No piece of information is superior to any other.

Power lies in the having them all on file and then finding the connections.

There are always connections; you have only to want to find them.

Umberto Eco

Foucault�s Pendulum

English translation by William Weaver, New York 1989

Or does this meet the content?

So Geographers in Afric-Maps
With Savage-Pictures fill their Gaps;
And o'er unhabitable Downs
Place Elephants for want of Towns.

Jonathan Swift
On Poetry: A Rapsody.
Re-printed in London, 1733.

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