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"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."

Joshua Foer on Car

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  • "If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1,000 MPG."

    Bill Gates on Car

  • "There was a time in my life when I thought I had everything - millions of dollars, mansions, cars, nice clothes, beautiful women, and every other materialistic thing you can imagine. Now I struggle for peace."

    Richard Pryor on Car

  • "Car designers are just going to have to come up with an automobile that outlasts the payments."

    Erma Bombeck on Car

  • "I hooked up my accelerator pedal in my car to my brake lights. I hit the gas, people behind me stop, and I'm gone."

    Steven Wright on Car

  • "I replaced the headlights in my car with strobe lights, so it looks like I'm the only one moving."

    Steven Wright on Car

More quotes by Joshua Foer

  • "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."

  • "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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