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  1. Part of the function of memory is to forget; the omni-retentive mind will break down and produce at best an idiot savant who can recite a telephone book, and at worst a person to whom every grudge and slight is as yesterday.
    -- Christopher Hitchens

    #Wisdom #Quotes #ChristopherHitchens #Forgetfulness #Memory

    #Photography #Panorama #Sunrise #SacandagaLake #Adirondacks #NewYork

  2. Part of the function of memory is to forget; the omni-retentive mind will break down and produce at best an idiot savant who can recite a telephone book, and at worst a person to whom every grudge and slight is as yesterday.
    -- Christopher Hitchens

    #Wisdom #Quotes #ChristopherHitchens #Forgetfulness #Memory

    #Photography #Panorama #Sunrise #SacandagaLake #Adirondacks #NewYork

  3. Part of the function of memory is to forget; the omni-retentive mind will break down and produce at best an idiot savant who can recite a telephone book, and at worst a person to whom every grudge and slight is as yesterday.
    -- Christopher Hitchens

    #Wisdom #Quotes #ChristopherHitchens #Forgetfulness #Memory

    #Photography #Panorama #Sunrise #SacandagaLake #Adirondacks #NewYork

  4. Part of the function of memory is to forget; the omni-retentive mind will break down and produce at best an idiot savant who can recite a telephone book, and at worst a person to whom every grudge and slight is as yesterday.
    -- Christopher Hitchens

    #Wisdom #Quotes #ChristopherHitchens #Forgetfulness #Memory

    #Photography #Panorama #Sunrise #SacandagaLake #Adirondacks #NewYork

  5. Part of the function of memory is to forget; the omni-retentive mind will break down and produce at best an idiot savant who can recite a telephone book, and at worst a person to whom every grudge and slight is as yesterday.
    -- Christopher Hitchens

    #Wisdom #Quotes #ChristopherHitchens #Forgetfulness #Memory

    #Photography #Panorama #Sunrise #SacandagaLake #Adirondacks #NewYork

  6. I looked at the time on the stove, and thought "Wow! It is much earlier than I thought!"

    Then I remembered that it does not switch time automatically. :holdthepain:

    #DaylightSavingTime #forgetfulness

  7. I looked at the time on the stove, and thought "Wow! It is much earlier than I thought!"

    Then I remembered that it does not switch time automatically. :holdthepain:

    #DaylightSavingTime #forgetfulness

  8. I looked at the time on the stove, and thought "Wow! It is much earlier than I thought!"

    Then I remembered that it does not switch time automatically. :holdthepain:

    #DaylightSavingTime #forgetfulness

  9. I looked at the time on the stove, and thought "Wow! It is much earlier than I thought!"

    Then I remembered that it does not switch time automatically. :holdthepain:

    #DaylightSavingTime #forgetfulness

  10. A quotation from Nietzsche

    Blessed are the forgetful: for they “get the better” even of their blunders.
     
    [Selig sind die Vergesslichen: denn sie werden auch mit ihren Dummheiten “fertig”.]

    Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) German philosopher and poet
    Jenseits von Gut und Böse [Beyond Good and Evil], Aphorism 217 (1886) [tr. Zimmern (1906)]

    More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/nietzsche-friedrich/…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #nietzsche #blessing #blunder #error #forgetful #forgetfulness #forgetting #fretting #getover #mistake #notworryabout #setaside #shame #stupidity #unremembered #worry

  11. A quotation from Nietzsche

    Blessed are the forgetful: for they “get the better” even of their blunders.
     
    [Selig sind die Vergesslichen: denn sie werden auch mit ihren Dummheiten “fertig”.]

    Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) German philosopher and poet
    Jenseits von Gut und Böse [Beyond Good and Evil], Aphorism 217 (1886) [tr. Zimmern (1906)]

    More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/nietzsche-friedrich/…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #nietzsche #blessing #blunder #error #forgetful #forgetfulness #forgetting #fretting #getover #mistake #notworryabout #setaside #shame #stupidity #unremembered #worry

  12. A quotation from Nietzsche

    Blessed are the forgetful: for they “get the better” even of their blunders.
     
    [Selig sind die Vergesslichen: denn sie werden auch mit ihren Dummheiten “fertig”.]

    Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) German philosopher and poet
    Jenseits von Gut und Böse [Beyond Good and Evil], Aphorism 217 (1886) [tr. Zimmern (1906)]

    More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/nietzsche-friedrich/…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #nietzsche #blessing #blunder #error #forgetful #forgetfulness #forgetting #fretting #getover #mistake #notworryabout #setaside #shame #stupidity #unremembered #worry

  13. A quotation from Nietzsche

    Blessed are the forgetful: for they “get the better” even of their blunders.
     
    [Selig sind die Vergesslichen: denn sie werden auch mit ihren Dummheiten “fertig”.]

    Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) German philosopher and poet
    Jenseits von Gut und Böse [Beyond Good and Evil], Aphorism 217 (1886) [tr. Zimmern (1906)]

    More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/nietzsche-friedrich/…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #nietzsche #blessing #blunder #error #forgetful #forgetfulness #forgetting #fretting #getover #mistake #notworryabout #setaside #shame #stupidity #unremembered #worry

  14. I'm not terrible at remembering things, but I sometimes forget. 😭

    I tried using applications to remind myself of things I need to do.

    But then, I'd forget to use those apps.

    :holdthepain:

    #forgetfulness #reminder

  15. I'm not terrible at remembering things, but I sometimes forget. 😭

    I tried using applications to remind myself of things I need to do.

    But then, I'd forget to use those apps.

    :holdthepain:

    #forgetfulness #reminder

  16. I'm not terrible at remembering things, but I sometimes forget. 😭

    I tried using applications to remind myself of things I need to do.

    But then, I'd forget to use those apps.

    :holdthepain:

    #forgetfulness #reminder

  17. I'm not terrible at remembering things, but I sometimes forget. 😭

    I tried using applications to remind myself of things I need to do.

    But then, I'd forget to use those apps.

    :holdthepain:

    #forgetfulness #reminder

  18. 🤖🕵️‍♂️ Oh look, yet another *groundbreaking* API for AI agents that promises to revolutionize context management by remembering things. Bravo, UltraContext, for adding "auto-versioning" to the tech buzzword soup! 🥣 Because what the world truly needed was a way to make AI forget how to forget. 🙄
    ultracontext.ai/ #AIagents #contextmanagement #techbuzzwords #innovation #forgetfulness #HackerNews #ngated

  19. 🤖🕵️‍♂️ Oh look, yet another *groundbreaking* API for AI agents that promises to revolutionize context management by remembering things. Bravo, UltraContext, for adding "auto-versioning" to the tech buzzword soup! 🥣 Because what the world truly needed was a way to make AI forget how to forget. 🙄
    ultracontext.ai/ #AIagents #contextmanagement #techbuzzwords #innovation #forgetfulness #HackerNews #ngated

  20. 🤖🕵️‍♂️ Oh look, yet another *groundbreaking* API for AI agents that promises to revolutionize context management by remembering things. Bravo, UltraContext, for adding "auto-versioning" to the tech buzzword soup! 🥣 Because what the world truly needed was a way to make AI forget how to forget. 🙄
    ultracontext.ai/ #AIagents #contextmanagement #techbuzzwords #innovation #forgetfulness #HackerNews #ngated

  21. 🤖🕵️‍♂️ Oh look, yet another *groundbreaking* API for AI agents that promises to revolutionize context management by remembering things. Bravo, UltraContext, for adding "auto-versioning" to the tech buzzword soup! 🥣 Because what the world truly needed was a way to make AI forget how to forget. 🙄
    ultracontext.ai/ #AIagents #contextmanagement #techbuzzwords #innovation #forgetfulness #HackerNews #ngated

  22. A moment ago, I thought, "I better remember tomorrow that it is Festivus." Then, I decided to put it on my calendar as a yearly event. That way, I won't forget.

    :holdthepain: Who am I kidding? I'll be reminded in the morning, and then I'll forget within five minutes.

    #Festivus #forgetfulness

  23. A moment ago, I thought, "I better remember tomorrow that it is Festivus." Then, I decided to put it on my calendar as a yearly event. That way, I won't forget.

    :holdthepain: Who am I kidding? I'll be reminded in the morning, and then I'll forget within five minutes.

    #Festivus #forgetfulness

  24. A moment ago, I thought, "I better remember tomorrow that it is Festivus." Then, I decided to put it on my calendar as a yearly event. That way, I won't forget.

    :holdthepain: Who am I kidding? I'll be reminded in the morning, and then I'll forget within five minutes.

    #Festivus #forgetfulness

  25. A moment ago, I thought, "I better remember tomorrow that it is Festivus." Then, I decided to put it on my calendar as a yearly event. That way, I won't forget.

    :holdthepain: Who am I kidding? I'll be reminded in the morning, and then I'll forget within five minutes.

    #Festivus #forgetfulness

  26. I am very sorry about the above post. I started typing and then my cat interrupted me. Now, I don't remember what I wanted to say.

    #forgetfulness #cats

  27. I am very sorry about the above post. I started typing and then my cat interrupted me. Now, I don't remember what I wanted to say.

    #forgetfulness #cats

  28. I am very sorry about the above post. I started typing and then my cat interrupted me. Now, I don't remember what I wanted to say.

    #forgetfulness #cats

  29. I am very sorry about the above post. I started typing and then my cat interrupted me. Now, I don't remember what I wanted to say.

    #forgetfulness #cats

  30. Never forget!

    ...

    :catthinking:

    ....

    Wait... what was I supposed to never forget?

    #NeverForget #forgetfulness

  31. Never forget!

    ...

    :catthinking:

    ....

    Wait... what was I supposed to never forget?

    #NeverForget #forgetfulness

  32. Never forget!

    ...

    :catthinking:

    ....

    Wait... what was I supposed to never forget?

    #NeverForget #forgetfulness

  33. Never forget!

    ...

    :catthinking:

    ....

    Wait... what was I supposed to never forget?

    #NeverForget #forgetfulness

  34. A quotation from Bill Watterson

    CALVIN’S DAD: Why is it I can recall a cigarette ad jingle from 25 years ago, but I can’t remember what I just got up to do?

    Bill Watterson (b. 1958) American cartoonist
    Calvin and Hobbes (1994-01-31)

    More about this quote: wist.info/watterson-bill/80309…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #billwatterson #calvinandhobbes #advertisement #commercial #forgetfulness #forgetting #jingle #memory #memorylapse #remembering

  35. A quotation from Bill Watterson

    CALVIN’S DAD: Why is it I can recall a cigarette ad jingle from 25 years ago, but I can’t remember what I just got up to do?

    Bill Watterson (b. 1958) American cartoonist
    Calvin and Hobbes (1994-01-31)

    More about this quote: wist.info/watterson-bill/80309…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #billwatterson #calvinandhobbes #advertisement #commercial #forgetfulness #forgetting #jingle #memory #memorylapse #remembering

  36. A quotation from Bill Watterson

    CALVIN’S DAD: Why is it I can recall a cigarette ad jingle from 25 years ago, but I can’t remember what I just got up to do?

    Bill Watterson (b. 1958) American cartoonist
    Calvin and Hobbes (1994-01-31)

    More about this quote: wist.info/watterson-bill/80309…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #billwatterson #calvinandhobbes #advertisement #commercial #forgetfulness #forgetting #jingle #memory #memorylapse #remembering

  37. A quotation from Bill Watterson

    CALVIN’S DAD: Why is it I can recall a cigarette ad jingle from 25 years ago, but I can’t remember what I just got up to do?

    Bill Watterson (b. 1958) American cartoonist
    Calvin and Hobbes (1994-01-31)

    More about this quote: wist.info/watterson-bill/80309…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #billwatterson #calvinandhobbes #advertisement #commercial #forgetfulness #forgetting #jingle #memory #memorylapse #remembering

  38. A quotation from Bill Watterson

    CALVIN’S DAD: Why is it I can recall a cigarette ad jingle from 25 years ago, but I can’t remember what I just got up to do?

    Bill Watterson (b. 1958) American cartoonist
    Calvin and Hobbes (1994-01-31)

    More about this quote: wist.info/watterson-bill/80309…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #billwatterson #calvinandhobbes #advertisement #commercial #forgetfulness #forgetting #jingle #memory #memorylapse #remembering

  39. Forgetfulness – Billy Collins

    The name of the author is the first to go
    followed obediently by the title, the plot,
    the heartbreaking conclusion, the entire novel
    which suddenly becomes one you have never read, never even heard of,

    as if, one by one, the memories you used to harbor
    decided to retire to the southern hemisphere of the brain,
    to a little fishing village where there are no phones.

    Long ago you kissed the names of the nine muses goodbye
    and watched the quadratic equation pack its bag,
    and even now as you memorize the order of the planets,

    something else is slipping away, a state flower perhaps,
    the address of an uncle, the capital of Paraguay.

    Whatever it is you are struggling to remember,
    it is not poised on the tip of your tongue
    or even lurking in some obscure corner of your spleen.

    It has floated away down a dark mythological river
    whose name begins with an L as far as you can recall

    well on your own way to oblivion where you will join those
    who have even forgotten how to swim and how to ride a bicycle.

    No wonder you rise in the middle of the night
    to look up the date of a famous battle in a book on war.
    No wonder the moon in the window seems to have drifted
    out of a love poem that you used to know by heart.

    by Billy Collins (b 1941)

    #Forgetfulness #Poem #Poetry

  40. Forgetfulness – Billy Collins

    The name of the author is the first to go
    followed obediently by the title, the plot,
    the heartbreaking conclusion, the entire novel
    which suddenly becomes one you have never read, never even heard of,

    as if, one by one, the memories you used to harbor
    decided to retire to the southern hemisphere of the brain,
    to a little fishing village where there are no phones.

    Long ago you kissed the names of the nine muses goodbye
    and watched the quadratic equation pack its bag,
    and even now as you memorize the order of the planets,

    something else is slipping away, a state flower perhaps,
    the address of an uncle, the capital of Paraguay.

    Whatever it is you are struggling to remember,
    it is not poised on the tip of your tongue
    or even lurking in some obscure corner of your spleen.

    It has floated away down a dark mythological river
    whose name begins with an L as far as you can recall

    well on your own way to oblivion where you will join those
    who have even forgotten how to swim and how to ride a bicycle.

    No wonder you rise in the middle of the night
    to look up the date of a famous battle in a book on war.
    No wonder the moon in the window seems to have drifted
    out of a love poem that you used to know by heart.

    by Billy Collins (b 1941)

    #Forgetfulness #Poem #Poetry

  41. A quotation from Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

    Memory is a net; one finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook; but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking.

    Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809-1894) American poet, essayist, scholar
    Article (1858-10), “Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table,” Atlantic Monthly

    Sourcing, notes: wist.info/holmes-sr-oliver-wen…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #experience #forgetfulness #memory #recollection #selectivememory

  42. A quotation from Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

    Memory is a net; one finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook; but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking.

    Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809-1894) American poet, essayist, scholar
    Article (1858-10), “Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table,” Atlantic Monthly

    Sourcing, notes: wist.info/holmes-sr-oliver-wen…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #experience #forgetfulness #memory #recollection #selectivememory