"Over the last few millennia we've invented a series of technologies - from the alphabet to the scroll to the codex, the printing press, photography, the computer, the smartphone - that have made it progressively easier and easier for us to externalize our memories, for us to essentially outsource this fundamental human capacity."

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Joshua Foer

#Photography Quotes #Memories Quotes #Technology Quotes

“I love to have fun and goof around and be silly, so anybody who can also do that is good for me.”
“I wasn't cut out to be an opera singer, but it was a nice fantasy for a teenager growing up in Hungary during the Stalinist era.”
“At the end of the day, the position is just a position, a title is just a title, and those things come and go. It's really your essence and your values that are important.”
“I love experienced people. I love people who are phenomenally talented. I love people who've worked so hard and been so courageous and are the leaders in their fields. For me to meet somebody like that and learn from them and share words with them -to me that's magic.”
“The good man is the friend of all living things.”
“If it seems like you are playing around and not practicing, that's when you know you really love it.”
“I am so grateful for my physical therapist, Teresa England, who taught me to respect the process of recovery. Healing is sometimes slow, and any pace but fast was alien to me. To me, the idea of patience and gradual progress was a very foreign idea. I truly learned patience from this woman, and how to appreciate the smallest signs of improvement.”

Source : "Tara Subkoff: 'I Survived a Brain Tumor'" by Derek Blasberg, www.harpersbazaar.com. Apr 17, 2010.
“Stop running to those who ignore you and start running to those who adore you.”

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