Quotes About Memory

Wat weg is, ben je kwijt.

Yes, he was an old man but, gosh, those muscled limbs of his, the strength in them. She remembered how vast he had seemed, nude in the little cottage bedroom, like a giant folded up and tucked into a shoebox.

Humans appear to have a need for certainty, a motivation to hold on to something rather than to question it. People with a high need for certainty are more prone to stereotypes than others and are less inclined to remember information that contradicts their stereotypes.3

I was fortunate to have had a happy childhood, one that in all probability was not as perfect as I have chosen to remember. But its memory has helped me survive, and I have used it as a beacon to illuminate the darkness of the tragedy that followed, just as I often use the darkness of past despair to show me the blessings which I might otherwise take for granted.

Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.

The old forget, the young don't know.

I'm realizing how short people's memories are, and what's written here could help them remember what it was like for us. This is not just my story, or your mother's, or your Uncle Joseph's, or Farmer Ben's. This is the story of so many people who lived through those times like us. This is our story. All of us. And it's important not to forget.

History takes time. History makes memory.

[Of Oakland, California:] There is no there there.

It is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them.

Obra de tal modo que cada uno de tus actos sea digno de convertirse en un recuerdo

All that is dead carries the echoes of life.

The history of my life must begin by the earliest circumstance which my memory can evoke it will therefore commence when I had attained the age of eight years and four months.

He who travels much has this advantage over others – that the things he remembers soon become remote, so that in a short time they acquire the vague and poetical quality which is only given to other things by time. He who has not traveled at all has this disadvantage – that all his memories are of things present somewhere, since the places with which all his memories are concerned are present.

Oh in youth, when hope has a long road ahead and the way of memory is short, [15] how sweet it is remembering what happened, though it was sad, and though the pain endures!

For Leopardi the ancients and orality, uniquely endowed with the capacity to keep memory alive, were in fact one and the same thing (Z 4270 and note 2

los hombres mueren y los gobiernos cambian, pero las canciones de La Bohéme vivirán siempre. Thomas Alva edison

Zanzotto ricorda che la nonna dialettofona, la nonna popolana recitava a lui piccolo versi familiari del Tasso, e quell'armonia del toscano illustre filtrava nella sua coscienza come "una vera e propria droga fonica, sopra il continuum un po' selvatico della parlata dialettale".

system that is paging is writing selected, infrequently used pages of memory to disk,

while a system that is swapping is writing entire processes from memory to disk.

Memory is consumed by four things: the kernel, filesystem caches, processes, and intimately shared memory.

processor performance doubles roughly every eighteen months, but memory performance doubles roughly every seven years.

Caches are organized into equal-sized chunks called lines.

NCA uses a kernel module to transparently cache static web content in a kernel memory buffer, and replies to HTTP document requests for documents in its cache without ever waking up the application web server.