Quotes About Memory

All architects want to live beyond their deaths.

We have discharged one generation of debtors after another, but we do not find that their numbers lessen. We find only that we forget, when times are good, that times were ever bad.

You know how it is, somebody will see your work and like it and remember it, then decide to make it a role in their film.

My mum is still present in my life. Every goal I score, I dedicate to her. When I am not doing well, I also think about her.

I've been married to music my entire life. I've been dedicated to it. I know what it takes to do it. And ever since my brother has been taken from me, I feel like I have to live for both of us.

In great deeds something abides.

These words dropped into my childish mind as if you should accidentally drop a ring into a deep well. I did not think of them much at the time, but there came a day in my life when the ring was fished up out of the well, good as new.

We've never been anti-permanence. We just belief deletion should be the default.

In my father's later years he asked several times that I remember him the way I knew him. He said that after his death, people would talk. They would say 'things' about him and he wouldn't be there to defend himself.

A common defense among obituary-fanciers such as myself is that the obit is not about death at all. It is about life. This is true since an article about the condition of deadness would make for turgid reading at best.

My mother's death was the defining moment of my life.

It would be better for everyone if we deleted everything by default and saved the things that are important to us.

I stopped using AIM years ago - I can't remember exactly when - and so its demise shouldn't mean much to me.

Many people do remember their births, but they deny it.

Pain leaves a mark, the degree depending on the person and the event.

When people say, 'I know you. What have I seen you in?' I respond, 'Well, it depends on how old you are.'

I'm not a doctor - so I can't describe flashbacks well - but it is like you're living it again.

I don't expect people to forget my brash words or deeds. But I ask that they try to remember the actions that I took that were designed to help them.

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'm always writing, even when I'm not at my desk. I write on my hands. I used to write on my kids' hands, too, but they don't let me any more. When I'm driving I sometimes write all the way up my arms.

Sometimes, when I'm sitting at my desk for long hours and nothing's coming to me, I remember my fifth-grade teacher, the way her eyes lit up when she said, 'This is really good.'

At 93, so deep in dementia that she didn't remember any details of her life, my mother somehow still knew songs.

You don't forget the movies, but you forget the details of them.

I don't remember my first two marriages... the details are very sketchy.