Memory Quotes

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I don't expect to live forever, nor do I repine over that, but I am weak enough to want to be remembered forever. - Yet… — Isaac Asimov
Consider a future device for individual use, which is a sort of mechanized private file and library. It needs a name, and, to coin one… — Vannevar Bush
I am hopelessly in love with a memory. An echo from another time, another place. — Michel Foucault
Only a philosopher's mind grows wings, since its memory always keeps it as close as possible to those realities by being close to which the… — Plato
The memory came faint and cold of the story I might have told, a story in the likeness of my life, I mean without the… — Samuel Beckett
Reason and memory are nearly always at odds. — Paul Auster
There's not a good poet I know who has not at the beck and call of his memory a vast quantity of poetry that composes… — Anthony Hecht
If the humanism that makes civilization civilized is to be preserved into the new century, it will need advocates. These advocates will need a memory,… — Clive James
In a fragment of a second you can understand: Things you know, things you donâ€™t know, things you donâ€™t know that you donâ€™t know, conscious,… — Peter Zumthor
Part of us believes the new car is better because it lasts longer. But, in fact, that's the worst thing about the new car. It… — Daniel Gilbert
For over two weeks, the defenders of Wake Island held off a vastly superior force of Japanese ships and troops, inspiring the whole nation with… — Tom Clancy
The last speaker alluded to this movement as being that of a few disappointed women. From the first years to which my memory stretches, I… — Lucy Stone
To have some account of my thoughts, manners, acquaintance and actions, when the hour arrives in which time is more nimble than memory, is the… — Fanny Burney
We have all experienced times when, instead of being buffeted by anonymous forces, we do feel in control of our actions, masters of our own… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
When we think about online learning, it's such 'early days.' Bill Gates is a wildly smart insightful guy. Yet, even a guy as smart and… — Reed Hastings
Common integration is only the memory of differentiation... The different artifices by which integration is effected, are changes, not from the known to the unknown,… — Augustus De Morgan
We are all dangling in mid-process between what already happened (which is just a memory) and what might happen (which is just an idea). Now… — Sylvia Boorstein
So first, your memory I'll jog, And say: A CAT IS NOT A DOG — Thomas Stearns Eliot
According to materialistic science, any memory requires a material substrate, such as the neuronal network in the brain or the DNA molecules of the genes. — Stanislav Grof
Photography is like a found object. A photographer never makes an actual subject; they just steal the image from the world...Photography is a system of… — Hiroshi Sugimoto

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