Quotes by Memory They're very strong in memory. Didn't do very much in microprocessors or digital signal processing. Jack Kilby verymemorydigitalstrong I don't view my memory as accurate or static - and, in autobiographical fiction, my focus is still on creating an effect, not on documenting reality - so 'autobiographical,' to me, is closer in meaning to 'fiction' than 'autobiography.' Tao Lin memorymefocusreality Probably the most formative experience was reading the 'Foundation' trilogy when I was about twelve years old. That wasn't the first science fiction I had ever read, but it's something that stands out in my memory as having had a big impact on me. Ted Chiang memorymeexperiencescience I'm fascinated by how much has changed from one generation to another. There are young people growing up now for whom apartheid is just a distant memory and the idea of military service is an abstract notion. Damon Galgut generationmemoryservicepeople As a science fiction fan, I had always assumed that when computers supplemented our intelligence, it would be because we outsourced some of our memory to them. We would ask questions, and our machines would give oracular - or supremely practical - replies. Gary Wolf computersmemoryintelligencescience But the memory of war weighs undiminished upon the people's minds. That is because deeper than material wounds, moral wounds are smarting, inflicted by the so- called peace treaties. Hjalmar Schacht memorywarpeacepeople Memory is a big one: our ability to use the memory and move things in and out efficiently - that affected what we were able to do more than anything. Todd Howard memorybigthingsability My earliest memory is being in a snow hole, aged two-and-a-half, with my dad somewhere up a mountain in a blizzard. I don't know what my dad saw in me - I was a geeky kid - but he had that philosophy: prepare the kid for the road, not the road for the kid. Tommy Caldwell memorymemountaindad My best vacation memory is getting barreled at the beach in Hawaii. Troy Polamalu memorybestvacationbeach One of my earliest memories is seeing a 'Godzilla' movie - not just my earliest movie memory, but any kind of memory. Travis Beacham memoryjustseeingmemories Mind mapping is a technique based on memory and creativity and comprehension and understanding, so when the student or a child uses the mind map, they are using their brain in the way their brain was designed to be used, and so the mind helps them in all learning and cognitive skills. It simply helps them in what the brain does naturally. Tony Buzan memorylearningmindbrain Americans have no sense of history. And not much memory. They don't remember what happened yesterday. Howard Fast memoryyesterdayrememberhistory My first memory was of stories about the past - a past that, according to the storytellers, was superior in every way to the life then being lived. It didn't take me long, however, to understand that the present was all we had, for the past was gone, and nothing could be done about it. Horton Foote memorymelifelong My earliest memory of books is not of reading but of being read to. I spent hours listening, watching the face of the person reading aloud to me. Hisham Matar facememorymereading Speaking as someone who's played a lot of video games, and at the end of the video game all you have is a memory, after woodworking you get this piece of furniture. Thomas Middleditch video-gamesmemorygameyou If I get too old to write, or short-term memory loss - that was the one Philip Roth was worried about - if I got to that point, that would be terrible, because everything about my life has been streaming toward writing and having something to say. That would make me feel as though I were in an iron maiden of some kind. Thomas McGuane my-lifememorymelife A Church which has lost its memory is in a sad state of senility. Henry Chadwick memorysadchurchlost People in cities may forget the soil for as long as a hundred years, but Mother Nature's memory is long and she will not let them forget indefinitely. Henry Cantwell Wallace memorynaturemotherpeople We photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing, and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth can make them come back again. We cannot develop and print a memory. Henri Cartier-Bresson memorybackthingsearth Memory is very important, the memory of each photo taken, flowing at the same speed as the event. During the work, you have to be sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've captured everything, because afterwards it will be too late. Henri Cartier-Bresson memoryyouimportantwork1234567891011»
