Phone Numbers Quotes

Growing up in the days when you still had to punch buttons to make a telephone call, I could recall the numbers of all my close friends and family. Today, I'm not sure if I know more than four phone numbers by heart. And that's probably more than most.

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

Suddenly, people had three phone numbers but never answered their phones.

Intuitively you want some place [such as your phone] to store phone numbers, so you have that part of your brain to do other tasks.

We didn't expect it to be cool, with people trading URLs instead of phone numbers.

Once I'd reached the point where I could squirrel away more than 30 digits a minute in memory palaces, I still only sporadically used the techniques to memorize the phone numbers of people I actually wanted to call. I found it was just too simple to punch them into my cell phone.

I do have a really good memory. I mean, like, I can remember all the phone numbers of everybody on the street I grew up on.

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

We're visual creatures. Probably, when we were hunter gatherers... that was the kind of thing that mattered. And remembering, say, phone numbers was, like, not that important when you're hunting down a mastodon or whatever.

You know when a company wants to use letters in their phone number, but often they'll use too many letters? "Call 1-800-I-Really-Enjoy-Brand-New-Carpeting." Too many letters, man, must I dial them all? "Hello? Hold on, man, I'm only on 'Enjoy.' How did you know I was calling? You're good, I can see why they hired you!"

Nobody is listening to your telephone calls. Intelligence agencies are looking at phone numbers and durations of calls; they are not looking at people’s names, and they’re not looking at content.

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

Apparently, Osama bin Laden was killed with money and phone numbers sewn into his clothing. So we got him right before he left for summer camp.

I don't have anyone's number; I just Facebook them.