I like problems at the borders of disciplines. One of the reasons that neurobiology of learning and memory appeal to me so much was that I liked the idea of bringing biology and psychology together. – Eric Kandel
The computing world is very good at things that we are not. It is very good at memory. – Eric Schmidt
I remember being interviewed about my first novel, ‘The Colour of Memory.’ They kept using the expression ‘your first novel,’ and I said, ‘No, I object to that phrase, because this is it for me.’ – Geoff Dyer
Memory is not particularly linear – it is associative, repetitive, subjective and porous. But the writer needs to convey disorder and dysfunction without making the novel itself disorderly or dysfunctional. – Dana Spiotta
If the clockwork universe equated the human body with the mechanics of the clock, the digital universe now equates human consciousness with the processing of the computer. We joke that things don’t compute, that we need a reboot, or that our memory has been wiped. – Douglas Rushkoff
I do not speak Hebrew, but I understand that it has no word for ‘history.’ The closest word for it is memory. – David Miliband
My earliest memory is a picnic in the park near our house, which was next to Wimbledon Common. Why on earth we went to a park when we lived so near the common is a mystery, but it had formal gardens and lawns – perhaps it was that very difference that took my parents there. – Martin Clunes
What you possess is not what you jingle in the pockets of your memory, but the imaginings with which you fill the spaces of the future. – Elizabeth Bibesco
There is no memory or retentive faculty based on lasting impression. What we designate as memory is but increased responsiveness to repeated stimuli. – Nikola Tesla
People who think my books are autobiographical, which they’re not, credit me with having a much better memory than I do. I do, however, have a powerful imagination. – Curtis Sittenfeld
The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine principle of our race is action, choice, resolved memory. – George Eliot
It is all very well to copy what one sees, but it is far better to draw what one now only sees in one’s memory. That is a transformation in which imagination collaborates with memory. – Edgar Degas
I think one of the primary themes in my work is the paradox of memory, at once fundamental to our sense of who we are and yet elusive, ever-changing, fragmentary. One way to look at this is to say that, therefore, we ourselves are elusive, ever-changing and fragmentary to ourselves. – Floyd Skloot
The appearance of aged persons is too well known to make detailed description necessary. The skin of the face is dry and wrinkled and generally pale. The hairs on the head and the body are white. The back is bent, and the gait is slow and laborious, whilst the memory is weak. Such are the most familiar traits of old age. – Elie Metchnikoff
I know how to hit a mark without looking. I instinctively know where my eye line should be. That’s all 100%. But your character and the story are always different, so the emotional part is not muscle memory. You’re still surprised by stuff and get the adrenaline. – Dakota Fanning
It’s like your children talking about holidays, you find they have a quite different memory of it from you. Perhaps everything is not how it is, but how it’s remembered. – Denis Norden
Blueberries, strawberries, raspberries and other varieties have anthocyanins that can help reverse some loss of balance and memory associated with aging. – David H. Murdock
Outside speech, the association that is made in the memory between words having something in common creates different groups, series, families, within which very diverse relations obtain but belonging to a single category: these are associative relations. – Ferdinand de Saussure
I think you have to look at these cold cases. If they’re done properly, if the homicides are done properly, and everything’s documented properly, you have a lot of concrete statements from those people that they would be able to look at them and refresh their memory. – Mark Fuhrman
One learns little more about a man from the feats of his literary memory than from the feats of his alimentary canal. – Frank Moore Colby
9/11 occurs, and you’re going to rebuild, and after awhile, the memory will be there, but there will be something new there, and different, and functioning, and electric. – Mario Cuomo
I’m a writer who simply can’t know what I’m writing about until the writing lets me discover it. In a sense, my writing process embraces the gapped nature of my memory process, leaping across spaces that represent all I’ve lost and establishing fresh patterns within all that remains. – Floyd Skloot
Everyone complains of his memory, and nobody complains of his judgment. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld
I have a memory of my fourth-grade self wanting to be the first woman president of the United States, but I think that has a lot more to do with my love of world records and reference books than a love of serving my country. – Elizabeth McCracken
I marvel at the resilience of the Jewish people. Their best characteristic is their desire to remember. No other people has such an obsession with memory. – Elie Wiesel
I am my heart’s undertaker. Daily I go and retrieve its tattered remains, place them delicately into its little coffin, and bury it in the depths of my memory, only to have to do it all again tomorrow. – Emilie Autumn
Part of us believes the new car is better because it lasts longer. But, in fact, that’s the worst thing about the new car. It will stay around to disappoint you, whereas a trip to Europe is over. It evaporates. It has the good sense to go away, and you are left with nothing but a wonderful memory. – Daniel Gilbert
