Memory is like a spiderweb that catches new information. The more it catches, the bigger it grows. And the bigger it grows, the more it catches.

If you want to live a memorable life, you have to be the kind of person who remembers to remember.

Our lives are the sum of our memories. How much are we willing to lose from our already short lives by … not paying attention?

What makes things memorable is that they are meaningful, significant, colorful.

The more we remember, the better we are at processing the world. And the better we are at processing the world, the more we can remember about it.

To the extent that experience is the sum of our memories and wisdom the sum of experience, having a better memory would mean knowing not only more about the world, but also more about myself.

...who we are and what we do it is fundamentally a function of what we remember.

As bad as we are at remembering names and phone numbers and word-for-word instructions from our colleagues, we have really exceptional visual and spatial memories.

Invented languages have often been created in tandem with entire invented universes, and most conlangers come to their craft by way of fantasy and science fiction.

Memory training is not just for the sake of performing party tricks; it's about nurturing something profoundly and essentially human.

The way to get better at a skill is to force yourself to practice just beyond your limits.

The future came and went in the mildly discouraging way that futures do.

The future is not about a single mind that sees or predicts - it is about the many.

we write as if our lives depended upon it. They do.

I'm interested in philosophical psychology, people like Nietzsche, Freud, Alcan, Foucault, Derrida.

My intuition never fails me, it is I who fail when I do not listen to it.

The network by itself is meaningless. Only the people were ever meaningful.

I never want to play a character that's one-dimensional.

It makes me nervous when you keep answering all my questions with 'I don't know.' " "Me, too," I said.

A society will manufacture an image of progress and locate it in the direction it wishes to take us.

As Latinos, we are so aware of what people go through in order to come to America. It's very interesting to do research on something that's been culturally a part of your existence.