Computers Quote by Rick Perlstein

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

— Cory Doctorow

Memory is set up to use the past to imagine the future.

— Daniel Schacter

History takes time. History makes memory.

— Gertrude Stein

There's a preoccupation with memory and the operation of memory and a rather rapacious interest in history.

— Penelope Lively

The greatest thing that has ever come from this technological era is the 'Clear History' option on computers.

— Anonymous

Memory has always been social. Now we're using search engines and computers to augment our memories, too.

— Clive Thompson

“The American people and media have an incredibly short memory despite technological tools that allow for infinite storage and recall.”

— Baratunde Thurston

The 'politics of memory' policy appears to work largely by insinuation.

— Norman Davies

Computers have enabled people to make more mistakes faster than almost any invention in history, with the possible exception of tequila and hand guns.

— Mitch Ratcliffe

It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.

— Lewis Carroll

The early personal computers were not very powerful so the idea of feeding their program into a small amount of memory requires immense skill.

— Bill Gates

Memory is the most malicious cutter of all, preserving, recasting, panning in slow motion across the awful bits so that we retain every detail.

— Colson Whitehead