Computer Quote by Clive Thompson

For decades, computers have been helping us to remember, but now it's time for them to help us to ignore.

— Cory Doctorow

We don’t constrain our mental powers when we store new long-term memories. We strengthen them. With each expansion of our memory comes an enlargement…

— Nicholas G. Carr

“The Web provides a convenient and compelling supplement to personal memory, but when we start using the Web as a substitute for personal memory,…

— Nicholas Carr

Memory is what makes us young or old.

— Anonymous

Maybe it is not just social history - the belt buckles and soup ladles - that connects us to the past, but a grander…

— Bettany Hughes

Memory is a fascinating trickster. Words and images have enormous power and can easily displace actual experience over the years.

— Stephen Jay Gould

I miss the time when photos were taken for memories not for social networking sites.

— Inderpal

I have a remarkable memory; I forget everything. It is wonderfully convenient. It is as though the world were constantly renewing itself for me.

— Jules Renard

When I climb into my car, I enter my destination into a GPS device, whose spatial memory supplants my own. I have photographs to…

— Joshua Foer

“[M]any people believe that memory works like a recording device. You just record the information, then you call it up and play it back…

— Elizabeth Loftus

History attempts to provide society with an artificial collective memory.

— Ralph Davis

Memory is an act of meaning-making. It collects the disparate pieces of our lives and distills them.

— Rebecca McClanahan