Extraordinary-individuals Quote by Joshua Foer

Jonah Lehrer is one of the most talented explainers of science that we’ve got. What a pleasure it is to follow his investigation of…

— Joshua Foer

“I don’t think I’m an exceptionally bad reader. I suspect that many people, maybe even most, are like me. We read and read and…

— Joshua Foer

Life seems to speed up as we get older because life gets less memorable as we get older.

— Joshua Foer

“We can only think about roughly seven things at a time.”

— Joshua Foer

With our blogs and tweets, digital cameras, and unlimited-gigabyte e-mail archives, participation in the online culture now means creating a trail of always present,…

— Joshua Foer

How much are we willing to lose from our already short lives by losing ourselves in our Blackberries, our iPhones, by not paying attention…

— Joshua Foer

The 'OK Plateau' is that place we all get to where we just stop getting better at something. Take typing, for example. You might…

— Joshua Foer

“One book, printed in the Heart’s own wax / Is worth a thousand in the stacks.”

— Joshua Foer

Languages are something of a mess. They evolve over centuries through an unplanned, democratic process that leaves them teeming with irregularities, quirks, and words…

— Joshua Foer

Invented languages have often been created in tandem with entire invented universes, and most conlangers come to their craft by way of fantasy and…

— Joshua Foer

“Perhaps, as Borges concludes in his story, it is forgetting, not remembering, that is the essence of what makes us human.”

— Joshua Foer

Someday in the distant cyborg future, when our internal and external memories fully merge, we may come to possess infinite knowledge. But that's not…

— Joshua Foer