Storing Quotes

7 quotes from 7 authors

We all turn moments into an archive, and these seven reflections show why it matters. One likens email and photo backups to a modern diary, another warns of the fear that ties self‑worth to stored data. A third marvels at how memory preserves what time erases. For more, see Memory, Digital Legacy, or Data Preservation.

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“Storing Value Unlike physical goods in the real world, the software that runs our technology products can adapt itself to our needs.…

Nir Eyal

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“Hunter-gathers, by nature, store information for use, understanding that there may be a time when information is scarce.”

Jud H. Copeland Brian C. O'Connor Jodi L. Kearns

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Once I have the idea for a story. I start collecting all kinds of helpful information and storing it in three-ring notebooks.…

Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

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I'm always storing away phrases and ideas and things that I think might turn into songs.

Mose Allison

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“In the very same books that tell us to locate our self-worth not in how we look but in who we are…

Ruby Tandoh

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We turn our own lives into an information archive by storing all our emails, SMS, digital photos, and other digital traces of…

Lev Manovich

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Memory: what wonders it performs in preserving and storing up things gone by - or rather, things that are

Plutarch

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