Sam Kean Quotes

I have short-term memory loss. I know that some of the memories of the Super Bowl championships are fading.

If you have a lesion in the hippocampus in both sides, you have short term memory, but you can convert that short term memory into long term memory.

I have a terrible memory.

I have a really terrible memory.

What a man can't remember doesn't exist for him.

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

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.

Tip-of-the-tongue syndrome is when people almost remember something but need a computer, or someone else, to help them find it. The problem is, our brains have always been terrible at remembering details. They were like that way before the Internet came along.

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

My memory's pretty much gone.

Boy, you know, it's amazing how your brain can turn into a sieve, and you can literally forget episodes that you have shot.

When the doctors showed me an X-ray of my brain, they pointed to a black hole on the upper left side and told me that all memory from that spot was dead. I thought to myself that I hoped that's where I kept 'The Orange Blossom Special.'

I don’t remember.

I don't remember scenes. I'm like, 'Really, we shot that?'

I can't remember names and things.

My memory's not too good.

I forget a lot of things sometimes. I'm not one to sit here and complain. While I did not know the severity of what continuous head traumas could do to an individual and the mind and so forth, I'm not going to sit here and complain.

If I forget, then it might as well never have happened. Memory is liberty.

I've forgotten who I had lunch with earlier, and even more important, where.

For someone who can’t remember very much, there seems to be a lot I can’t forget.

Goldfish have no memory, I guess their lives are much like mine. And the little plastic castle is a surprise everytime.

I don't even know my own phone number.

We consider ourselves as defective in memory, either because we remember less than we desire, or less than we suppose others to remember.

I have lost my short-term memory - I'm just getting blonder by the day.

My mind is vacant on names, but I know him as well as anything. When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don't need them they drop back.