Computers are really, basically, computing elements and a lot of memory. They are pretty easy to understand, as compared to the brain, which was designed by evolution.

I grew up around the Luxembourg Gardens, so I guess that is my best memory.

There are three side effects of acid: enhanced long-term memory, decreased short-term memory, and I forget the third.

What is true for book publishing is true for civilization: the books that survive the test of time are humanity's backlist, our collective memory.

My mother, who died aged 82, had Alzheimer's. Losing your memory is bad enough, but everything shuts down. You can't remember how to eat or go to the toilet. It's a terrible disease and so distressing to watch it take over someone you love.

I have never liked the memoir form because I tend to think that memory fictionalizes anyway. Once you claim that you are writing a narrative purely from memory, you are already in the realm of fiction.

I've got an awful memory, and I can't read or write, but you can read me a script once or twice, and I've got it.

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.

Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory.

The French, perhaps more than any other nation, cherish the memory of their dead by ornamenting their places of sepulture with the finest flowers, often renewing the garlands and replacing such plants as decay with vigorous and costly ones.

My memory is quite good, except when I'm off stage.

Anticipation of movement, through muscular innervation and memory, by its retention of nerve impulse images, extend the present to the limit of a second or so.

Let the past be content with itself, for man needs forgetfulness as well as memory.

Cultures are never merely intellectual constructs. They take form through the collective intelligence and memory, through a commonly held psychology and emotions, through spiritual and artistic communion.

We photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing, and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth can make them come back again. We cannot develop and print a memory.

For my name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages.

There'll always be working people in my poems because I grew up with them, and I am a poet of memory.

I have a photographic memory for numbers.

For 'American Born Chinese,' my first graphic novel with First Second Books, I did mostly 'memory' research. It's fiction, but I pulled heavily from my own childhood.

Memory is often less about the truth than about what we want it to be.