Memory Capacity Quotes

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

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

I've a grand memory for forgetting.

I keep bumping into that silly quotation attributed to me that says 640K of memory is enough. There's never a citation; the quotation just floats like a rumor, repeated again and again.

I've said some stupid things and some wrong things, but not that. No one involved in computers would ever say that a certain amount of memory is enough for all time.

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

If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory. There seems something more speakingly incomprehensible in the powers, the failures, the inequalities of memory, than in any other of our intelligences. The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient; at others, so bewildered and so weak; and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control! We are, to be sure, a miracle every way; but our powers of recollecting and of forgetting do seem peculiarly past finding out.

I'm not good at remembering things, in general.

I knew that I would know more dead people. The bodies pile up. Could there be a space in my memory for each of them, or would I forget a little of Alaska every day for the rest of my life?

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.

One needs but to say that, in the case of an unfamiliar sequence of syllables, only about seven can be grasped in one act, but that with frequent repetition and gradually increasing familiarity with the series this capacity of consciousness may be increased.

One can think of any given axiom system as being like a computer with a certain limited amount of memory or processing power. One could switch to a computer with even more storage, but no matter how large an amount of storage space the computer has, there will still exist some tasks that are beyond its ability.

I have a great memory. And actually, I remember Russia in some ways better than I remember Queens.

Memory, when duly impregnated with ascertained facts, is sometimes surprisingly fertile.

Human memory is short and terribly fickle.

It has often been said there’s so much to be read, you never can cram all those words in your head.

Computers have wonderful memories. Human memory is more fuzzy.

I've often asked myself, how much information can the brain actually hold? There'll probably come a day when you're able to download it; that's what you have to do when the machine's full.

RAM: This gives guys a way of deciding whose computer has the biggest, studliest memory. That's important, because the more memory a computer has, the faster it can produce error messages.

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.

Perhaps, to the uninformed, it may appear unaccountable that a man should be able to retain in his memory such a variety of learning; but the close alliance with each other, of the different branches of science, will explain the difficulty.

Your memory is a monster; you forget - it doesn't. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from you - and summons them to your recall with a will of its own. You think you have a memory; but it has you!

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

They say that your powers of memory are at their peak when you're 26, and it's all downhill after that.

A great many complimentary things have been said about the faculty of memory, and if you look in a good quotation book you will find them neatly arranged.