Collective memory Quote by Dee Hock

What other species now require of us is our attention. Otherwise, we are entering a narrative of disappearing intelligences.

— Terry Tempest Williams

We never, ever in the history of mankind have had access to so much information so quickly and so easily.

— Anonymous

“The time will come when diligent research over long periods will bring to light things which now lie hidden. A single lifetime, even though…

— Seneca

Every new medium transforms the nature of human thought. In the long run, history is the story of information becoming aware of itself.

— James Gleick

When all is lost, there is still a memory.

— Dejan Stojanovic

[Referring to the birds:] Nat listened to the tearing sound of splintering wood, and wondered how many million years of memory were stored in…

— Daphne du Maurier

I think as a species we're not designed to be able to think more than one year into the future - if that. Even…

— Douglas Coupland

It took nature 100 million years to make the ape stand up and become Homo sapiens. It took us only 10,000 to make knowing obsolete.

— Sugata Mitra

“That's one reason wildlife films matter: they're a set of permanent memories we can all share, making real those things we have not seen…

— John Aitchison

If the age of the Earth were a calendar year and today were a breath before midnight on New Year's Eve, we showed up…

— Janine Benyus

“Long after the traces of the human animal have disappeared, many of the species it is bent on destroying will still be around, along…

— John Gray

Memory is the place where our vanished days secretly gather. ... The past seems to be gone and absent. Yet the grooves in the…

— John O'Donohue