Todd Howard Quotes

The two offices of memory are collection and distribution.

I have a great memory.

Why is it that I can remember so easily the lyrics to the opening theme song of 'Gilligan's Island?' Why do I remember these trivial things, and I can't remember the names of important collaborators?

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

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.

When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don't need them they drop back.

The function of memory is not only to preserve, but also to throw away. If you remembered everything from your entire life, you would be sick.

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 have wonderful memories. Human memory is more fuzzy.

Why do we remember stuff from when we were 5 years old but not important facts that are more recent?

My dad thinks I have a photographic memory.

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.

Memory, in my opinion, is a complete noodle. It hangs on the silliest things but forgets the stuff that really matters.

The brain can process two million bits of information per second. It remembers everything you've ever seen, everything you've ever heard.

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

Memory is the basis of every journey.

The more we remember, the better we are at processing the world. And the better we are at processing the world, the more we can remember about it.

[...]my memory is reasonably good—unlike yours, dear sir!” “Mine is erratic,” he said imperturbably. “I remember only what interests me.

If you can't remember the small things, how are you going to remember the big things? The mind is a real dangerous neighborhood to travel by ourselves.

We all remember things, it's what we remember that determines how we live.

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.

We often talk about people with great memories as though it were some sort of an innate gift, but that is not the case. Great memories are learned. At the most basic level, we remember when we pay attention. We remember when we are deeply engaged.

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.

If it's hard to remember, it'll be difficult to forget.

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