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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Our subjective experience of time is highly variable. We all know that days can pass like weeks and months can feel like years, and that the opposite can be just as true: A month or year can zoom by in what feels like no time at all. – 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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Weve outsourced our memories to digital devices, and the result is that we no longer trust our memories. We see every small forgotten thing as evidence that theyre failing us. – Joshua Foer

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Like every aspect of cancer Ive weathered thus far, todays experience was not at all demoralizing, expensive or humiliating. No, it was just plain fun. – April Winchell

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Looking back, you realize that everything would have explained itself if you had only stopped interrupting. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant. – Edgar Allan Poe

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Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession. – George Washington

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