“If you want to live a memorable life, you have to be the kind of person who remembers to remember.Joshua Foer
“Our lives are the sum of our memories. How much are we willing to lose from our already short lives by … not paying attention?Joshua Foer
“Over the last few millennia, we've invented a series of technologies … that have made it progressively easier and easier for us to externalize our memories, for us to outsource this fundamental human capacity.Joshua Foer
“Once upon a time, this idea of having a trained, disciplined, cultivated memory was not nearly so alien as it would seem to us to be today.Joshua Foer
“Our ability to find humor in the world, to make connections between previously unconnected notions, to create new ideas, to share in a common culture: All these essentially human acts depend on memory.Joshua Foer