Memory Quotes

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I was running an assembly line designed to build memory chips. I saw the microprocessor as a bloody nuisance. — Andy Grove
When your entire brain is active, that means you are taking everything in through all sense perception. Your entire memory bank and your instincts are… — Martha Beck
CD stores have the disadvantage of an expensive inventory, but digital bookshops would need no such thing: they could write copies at the time of… — Richard Stallman
I still have a vivid memory of my excitement when I first saw a chart of the periodic table of elements. The order in the… — Joseph Murray
History is information. Memory is part of your identity. — David Miliband
I still have a vivid memory of my excitement when I first saw a chart of the periodic table of elements. — Joe Murray
Behavioral psychologists have observed that wanting something has a much stronger emotional impact than the pleasure that comes once you have it, or the memory… — Michael K. Powell
I mean, my father was killed when I was six. And I only have tiny, tiny flashes of memory. — Kristin Scott Thomas
What we hold in our heads - our memory, our feelings, our thoughts, our sense of our own history - is the sum of our… — Richard Eyre
Thank God for the potholes on memory lane. — Randy Newman
I think 90% of my ideas evaporate because I have a terrible memory and because I seem to be committed to not scribble anything down.… — Junot Diaz
I have a photographic memory. — Tom Holland
The Cemetery of Forgotten Books is a metaphor, not just for books but for ideas, for language, for knowledge, for beauty, for all the things… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
My first memory - at about four - was of numbers. The doctors who study me think a combination of mild autism and seizures I… — Daniel Tammet
Rhyme is a mnemonic device, an aid to the memory. And some poems are themselves mnemonics, that is to say, the whole purpose of the… — James Fenton
The 1960s was a period when writers in the West began to be aware of the extraordinary eloquence and popular attraction of the Russian poets… — James Fenton
My father was famous for his photographic memory. He was in the OSS. They trained him to be captured on purpose and to read upside… — Mark Helprin
Ireland and its people have much to be proud of. Yet every land and its people have moments of shame. Dealing with the failures of… — Sean Brady
I hope for so much from every book I read. And time and again, I find myself disappointed. I look across my bookshelves and see… — John Boyne
I was a very sickly boy when I was young; nearly died when I was 7. I had a life-threatening attack of meningitis, and that… — John Lydon

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