Quote by Joshua Foer
Just as we accumulate memories of facts by integrating them into a

Just as we accumulate memories of facts by integrating them into a network, we accumulate life experiences by integrating them into a web of other chronological memories. The denser the web, the denser the experience of time. – Joshua Foer

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Someday in the distant cyborg future, when our internal and external memories fully merge, we may come to possess infinite knowledge. But thats not the same thing as wisdom. – Joshua Foer

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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

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The fact that books today are mostly a string of words makes it easier to forget the text. With the impact of the iPad and the future of the book being up for re-imagination, I wonder whether well rediscover the importance of making texts richer visually. – Joshua Foer

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A few years experience will convince us that those things which at the time they happened we regarded as our greatest misfortunes have proved our greatest blessings. – George Mason

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I very rarely came across rude or disrespectful people. I dont know how I slipped by all of them, but I honestly cant think of one experience off the top of my head that was like that. Im sure theyre there, but Id have to think really hard to recall them. – Scott Baio

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Not what we experience, but how we perceive what we experience, determines our fate. – Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

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The experience and behavior that gets labeled schizophrenic is a special strategy that a person invents in order to live in an unlivable situation. – R. D. Laing

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