Creatures Quote by Joshua Foer

I like to remember phone numbers because it keeps your brain active. If you don't use it, you lose it.

— Joan Collins

Sure I have a cell-phone, so I don't have to remember everyone's number anymore, but that really wasn't a core part of my brain.

— Ken Jennings

Intuitively you want some place [such as your phone] to store phone numbers, so you have that part of your brain to do other…

— Bill Nye

“Forgotten phone numbers and birthdays represent minor erosions of our everyday memory, but they are part of a much larger story of how we've…

— Joshua Foer

I grew up using maps and having a sense of direction, and now I have a phone. I used to try to remember numbers,…

— Franklin Foer

People have no memory of phone numbers now because of the cell phone - their address book is in a cell phone.

— Gordon Bell

Once I'd reached the point where I could squirrel away more than 30 digits a minute in memory palaces, I still only sporadically used…

— Joshua Foer

What we did with this mobile telephone was create a revolution. Before the mobile phone existed we were calling a place, now we are…

— Martin Cooper

Numbers are the most certain things we have.

— Andy Rooney

“Here’s an interesting little notion. Did you realize that most people’s lives are governed by telephone numbers?”

— Douglas Adams

Technology has spoiled me and I'm so dependent on it that I do not even remember my mother's mobile number! And I used my…

— Madhura Naik

It used to be that we imagined that our mobile phones would be for us to talk to each other. Now, our mobile phones…

— Sherry Turkle