Quotes About Memory

Every image of the past that is not recognized by the present as one of its own concerns threatens to disappear irretrievably.

It is true that countless facades of the city stand exactly as they stood in my childhood. Yet I do not encounter my childhood in their contemplation. My gaze has brushed them too often since, too often they have been in the décor and theatre of my walks and concerns.

Freud's fundamental thought, on which these remarks are based, is formulated by the assumption that "consciousness comes into being at the site of a memory trace.

A verdadeira imagem do passado perpassa, veloz. O passado só se deixa ficar, como imagem que relampeja irreversivelmente, no momento em que é reconhecido.

The cult of remembrance of loved ones, absent or dead, offers a last refuge for the cult value of the picture.

To articulate the past historically does not mean to recognise it 'the way it really was' (Ranke). It means to seize hold of a memory as it flashes up at a moment of danger.

History is made up of fragments and absences. What is left out is as significant as what is included.

the images of my metropolitan childhood perhaps are capable, at their core, of preforming later historical experience' .

The storyteller: he is the man who could let the wick of his life be consumed completely by the gentle flame that is his story.

Articolare storicamente il passato non significa conoscerlo <>. Significa impadronirsi di un ricordo come esso balena nell'istante di un pericolo.

la función que tiene la memoria es la de proteger las impresiones, mientras que el recuerdo apunta a su disolución. La memoria es en esencia conservadora, en tanto que el recuerdo intenta destruir".

articulate the past historically does not mean to recognize it "the way it really was" (Ranke). It means to seize hold of a memory as it flashes up at a moment of danger. Historical materialism wishes to retain that image of the past which unexpectedly appears to man singled out by history at a moment of danger.

To articulate what is past does not mean to recognize "how it really was." It means to take control of a memory, as it flashes in a moment of danger.

It was as if the past were surrounded with a great wall; and the future clear and hard as glass. You might explore the past in memory: you couldn't scale its invisible walls.

sounds as faint as the vanishing remembrance of voices in a dream

We all keep our delusions with us. Sometimes it's a person, sometimes an idea, sometimes even a dream that seems more real in memory than it ever did in life.

One day someone called the Institute and asked to speak to a particular dean. When his secretary said that the dean wasn't available, the caller hesitantly asked for Einstein's home address. That was not possible to give out, he was informed. The caller's voice then dropped to a whisper. "Please don't tell anybody," he said, "but I am Dr. Einstein, I'm on my way home, and I've forgotten where my house is."40

Jobs pointed out as we walked in front of his old house.

Take a note of them with slight strokes in a little book which you should always carry with you," he wrote. "The positions of the people are so infinite that the memory is incapable of retaining them, which is why you should keep these sketches as your guides." 22

McCarthy's vision was prescient, but it differed in one major way from Kay's vision, and from the networked world that we have today. It was not based on personal computers with their own memory and processing power.

He said that he would always harbor affection for Apple. "I'll always remember Apple like any man remembers the first woman he's fallen in love with.

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I'll always remember Apple like any man remembers the first woman he's fallen in love with." But he was also willing to fight with its management if need be. "When someone calls you a thief in public, you have to respond." Apple's

veteran colleagues at Apple used to call his "reality distortion field." Sometimes it was the inadvertent misfiring of memory