Memory Overload Quotes

I think it killed the performance on a lot of the systems in the Labs for years because everyone had their own copy of it, but it wasn't being shared, and so they wasted huge amounts of memory back when memory was expensive.

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

Part of the function of memory is to forget; the omni-retentive mind will break down and produce at best an idiot savant who can recite a telephone book, and at worst a person to whom every grudge and slight is as yesterday's.

I have more memories than if I were a thousand years old.

Some people do not become thinkers simply because their memories are too good.

I don't live in the past. And besides, there are too many times in my career to remember specific events, because I played so many games.

We've outsourced our memories to digital devices, and the result is that we no longer trust our memories. We see every small forgotten thing as evidence that they're failing us.

And so it was when anyone tried to speak: their minds would become tangled in remembrance. Words became floods of thought with no beginning or end, and would drown the speaker before he could reach the life raft of the point he was trying to make. It was impossible to remember what one meant, what, after all of the words, was intended.

My skull is crammed with quotations.

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.

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.

But her brain was not interested in the future. Loaded with the past and hungry for more, it left her no room to imagine, let alone plan for, the next day.

... people misunderstood death, they died not of too little life but of too much life, that as the skin withered and the future grew short it was the past that took on flesh, until ultimately the sheer accumulation of experience and memory became too heavy to carry.

Memory is funny. Once you hit a vein the problem is not how to remember but how to control the flow.

You reach a moment in life when, among the people you have known, the dead outnumber the living. And the mind refuses to accept more faces, more expressions: on every new face you encounter, it prints the old forms, for each one it finds the most suitable mask.

I sometimes find, and I am sure you know the feeling, that I simply have too many thoughts and memories crammed into my mind.

No, I said. I didn't remember that. There was so much to remember, sometimes the best thing was to forget.

Memory was supposed to fill the time, but it made time a hole to be filled. Each second was two hundred yards, to be walked, crawled. You couldn't see the next hour, it was so far in the distance. Tomorrow was over the horizon, and would take an entire day to reach.

History. The more of it you have the more you have to live it. After a little while there gets to be too much of it to memorize and maybe that's when empires start to decline.

J'ai plus de souvenirs que si j'avais mille ans. IhavemorememoriesthanifIwereonethousandyearsold.

To remember everything is a form of madness.

[W]e must never allow the future to collapse under the burden of memory.

I think we're going to have auxiliary hard drives to offload our memories.

My brain is like a hard drive. Once you start adding new information, you start cutting off old information.

How could anyone stay sane with entire lifetimes stored in one human mind?