Andrew W. Moore Quotes

I was helped by having a verbatim memory of what happened years ago, even if I can't remember what happened a couple of days ago.

I can barely remember what I wrote yesterday, let alone 10 years ago.

People can remember their childhood, but events from four or five years ago are in a never-never land.

The hippocampus helps record both types of memories initially, and it helps retain them for the medium term. The hippocampus also helps us access old personal memories in long-term storage in other parts of the brain.

Computers are really, basically, computing elements and a lot of memory. They are pretty easy to understand, as compared to the brain, which was designed by evolution.

Memory is a big one: our ability to use the memory and move things in and out efficiently - that affected what we were able to do more than anything.

My teammates will tell you I find it hard to remember what happened two weeks earlier, let alone what happened a decade and a half back.

Elephants can remember, but we are human beings and mercifully human beings can forget.

Estragon: I'm like that. Either I forget right away or I never forget.

I met with amnesiacs and savants, educators and scientists, to try to understand what memory is, why it works, why it sometimes doesn't, and what its potential might be.

I always have trouble remembering three things: faces, names, and - I can't remember what the third thing is.

Memory in youth is active and easily impressible; in old age it is comparatively callous to new impressions, but still retains vividly those of earlier years.

I do two things. I design mobile computers and I study brains.

All of us roughly know what memory is. I mean, memory is sort of the storage of the past. It's the storage of our personal experiences. It's a very big deal.

In terms of long-term durable storage, the human mind, paradoxically, is pretty good, but it's very fragile.

Short term memory is not good.

My memory's bad!

People are good at intuition, living our lives. What are computers good at? Memory.

As bad as we are at remembering names and phone numbers and word-for-word instructions from our colleagues, we have really exceptional visual and spatial memories.

You never realize what a good memory you have until you try to forget something.

I have a great memory.

The idea behind digital computers may be explained by saying that these machines are intended to carry out any operations which could be done by a human computer.

… science may implement the ways in which man produces, stores, and consults the record of the race....

I've always been forgetful.

I first got interested in the brain through computers.