Umberto Eco is a professor at the University of Bologna in Italy. He is a prolific writer. He had earned fame as a scholar for his views on semiotics, literary interpretation and medieval aesthetics before he started writing fiction, academic texts, essays, children books and newspaper articles. Umberto makes best use of his time. Despite being a great intellectual, he is very simple and gentle. He does not feel proud of his achievements. The interview shows that he is very humble, logical and intelligent.