Joshua Foer Quotes

People have no memory of phone numbers now because of the cell phone - their address book is in a cell phone.

My biggest problem is retaining the exact information.

It alarms me to think of all that I have read and how little of it has stayed with me.

Sure I have a cell-phone, so I don't have to remember everyone's number anymore, but that really wasn't a core part of my brain.

We don't even know our friends' phone numbers anymore.

Our kids will never have to remember things, because it's all in pictures. Want to remember your fourth birthday? There'll be video of it on your phone.

...forgetting is vastly underrated as a mental operation.

If we lose our phones, we lose our phone books. You don't memorize numbers anymore.

Obviously technology has become such a big presence in our lives and, I definitely know, in my life.

I have resolved to pick one novel and just read it over and over again for the rest of my life, because I cannot remember anything anymore.

Social media is great, I guess, but it feels like technology is the sapper of innocence.

In relative youth, we assume we'll remember everything. Someone should urge the young to think otherwise.

A poem is learned by heart and then not again repeated. We will suppose that after a half year it has been forgotten: no effort of recollection is able to call it back again into consciousness.

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

Right now, we have the most complex relationship with technology that we've ever had. Your regular person has more technology in their life now than the whole world had 100 years ago.

I like to remember phone numbers because it keeps your brain active. If you don't use it, you lose it.

Without a functioning hippocampus, names, dates, and other information falls straight through the mind like a sieve.

Information has become the fundamental element of modern life.

President Reagan doesn't retain very much of what comes his way on a given day.

If we should remember everything we would be as worse off as if we remembered nothing.

I had a memory span about as long as the lines in a school play.

Over time, I've paid attention, taken notes and forgotten easily half of everything I've gone through.

My brain- the older I get, it holds even less. There's not the capacity I would wish there to be.

I really don't retain information - by the time I arrive wherever I'm going, I already forget what it is that I wanted to say.

I have a very bad memory. I can't remember my own life very well.