Ability Quote by Douglas Rushkoff

The mind can store an estimated ioo trillion bits of information compared with which a computer's mere billions are virtually amnesiac.

— Sharon Begley

Memory is like a spiderweb that catches new information. The more it catches, the bigger it grows. And the bigger it grows, the more…

— Joshua Foer

“Over the last few millennial, we've invented a series of technologies … that have made it progressively easier and easier for us to externalize…

— Joshua Foer

We've outsourced our memories to digital devices, and the result is that we no longer trust our memories. We see every small forgotten thing…

— Joshua Foer

Memory belongs to the imagination. Human memory is not like a computer which records things; it is part of the imaginative process, on the…

— Alain Robbe-Grillet

Memory is the thing you forget with.

— Alexander Chase

Remembered memory is much more powerful than actually having your own memory.

— Roma Tearne

Memory fades, memory adjusts, memory conforms to what we think we remember.

— Joan Didion

Memory is a funny thing. It tricks you into believing that you've forgotten important moments, and then when you're raking your brain for a…

— Melina Marchetta

Our brains are great at knowing what to forget. We actually have to teach computers to do the same.

— Kevin Maney

Memory is so corrupt that you remember only what you want to; if you want to forget about something, slowly but surely you do.

— Stefan Zweig

For in the end, it is all about memory, its sources and its magnitude, and, of course, its consequences.

— Elie Wiesel