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"One of the great challenges of our age, in which the tools of our productivity are also the tools of our leisure, is to figure out how to make more useful those moments of procrastination when we're idling in front of our computer screens."

Joshua Foer on Age

More quotes about Age

  • "Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter."

    Mark Twain on Age

  • "Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young."

    Henry Ford on Age

  • "Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been."

    Mark Twain on Age

  • "True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country."

    Kurt Vonnegut on Age

  • "A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age."

    Robert Frost on Age

More quotes by Joshua Foer

  • "When I climb into my car, I enter my destination into a GPS device, whose spatial memory supplants my own. I have photographs to store the images I want to remember, books to store knowledge and now, thanks to Google, I rarely have to remember anything more than the right set of search terms to access humankind's collective memory."

  • "No one who set out to design a form of communication would ever end up with anything like English, Mandarin, or any of the more than six thousand languages spoken today."

  • "No one who set out to design a form of communication would ever end up with anything like English, Mandarin, or any of the more than six thousand languages spoken today."

  • "Our subjective experience of time is highly variable. We all know that days can pass like weeks and months can feel like years, and that the opposite can be just as true: A month or year can zoom by in what feels like no time at all."

  • "Just as we accumulate memories of facts by integrating them into a network, we accumulate life experiences by integrating them into a web of other chronological memories. The denser the web, the denser the experience of time."

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