“In some far-off distant time, when the twentieth century history of primitive computing is just a murky memory, someone is likely to suppose that devices known as logic gates were named after the famous co-founder of Microsoft Corporation” MemoriesKnownCenturyLogicCorporationsDevicesGatesPrimitiveFoundersTwentieth CenturyMicrosoftComputing Book:Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software Source: Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software
“In certain favorable moods, memories -- what one has forgotten -- come to the top. Now if this is so, is it not possible -- I often wonder -- that things we have felt with great intensity have an existence independent of our minds; are in fact still in existence? And if so, will it not be possible, in time, that some device will be invented by which we can tap them?” IfsMindStillsFactsCertainFeltMemoriesExistenceWonderIndependentForgottenMoodDevicesIntensity Author:Virginia Woolf
“to look back on one's life is to experience the capriciousness of memory. ... the past is not static. It can be relived only in memory, and memory is a device for forgetting as well as remembering. It, too, is not immutable. It rediscovers, reinvents, reorganizes. Like a passage of prose it can be revised and repunctuated. To that extent, every autobiography is a work of fiction and every work of fiction an autobiography.” WellsLooksPastRememberLife IsMemoriesForgetFictionProseDevicesPassagesAutobiographyStatic Book:Time to Be in Earnest Source: Time to Be in Earnest
“We actually needed the memory - if you see the film - as a very different kind of a plot device of revealing some information to our main character. So we chose to represent it as these sort of beautiful little snow globes, which kind of, weirdly, that's the way we think of memories - at least, most of the folks that we talked to. You think of these memories as being very pure and absolute and unchanging. That's not actually real life.” IfsThinkingWayKindLittlesDifferentRealCharacterBeautifulFilmMemoriesInformationNeededPureAbsolutesFolksReal LifeSnowPlotDevicesDifferent KindsGlobesRevealingThink Of MeUnchangingMain Characters Author:Pete Docter
“In the world of computers and just devices in general, the lifespan, or the shelf life, is relatively short just because technology moves so fast and the costs drop so quickly and the power, whether it's computing power or memory rises very, very quickly.” WorldMovingLife IsMemoriesTechnologyCostComputerDevicesShelvesComputingShelf Life Author:Nicholas Negroponte