Quote by Joshua Foer
Weve outsourced our memories to digital devices, and the result is

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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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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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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One of the great challenges of our age, in which the tools of our productivity are also the tools of our leisure, is to figure out how to make more useful those moments of procrastination when were idling in front of our computer screens. – Joshua Foer

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Lets put aside the politics and trust the people. Lets embrace the unique opportunity we all have take the heat and make the hard and difficult decisions, knowing that were doing it to make things better for the people of Illinois. – Rod Blagojevich

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You can trust Charlie Crist. – Charlie Crist

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You cant trust code that you did not totally create yourself. – Ken Thompson

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