Languages are something of a mess. They evolve over centuries through …

Joshua Foer
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Languages are something of a mess. They evolve over centuries through an unplanned, democratic process that leaves them teeming with irregularities, quirks, and words like 'knight.' ✨ Utopian for Beginners by Joshua Foer, www.newyorker.com. December 24&31, 2012.
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Our culture is an edifice built of externalized memories. ✨ Joshua Foer (2011). Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything, p.23, Penguin
We're all just a bundle of habits shaped by our memories. And to the extent that we control our lives, we do so by gradually altering those habits, which is to say the networks of our memory. No last … ▶
Kissing could have begun as a way of sniffing out who's who. From a whiff to a kiss was just a short trip across the face.
Memory training is not just for the sake of performing party tricks; it's about nurturing something profoundly and essentially human. ✨ Joshua Foer (2011). Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Scie … ▶
Sequencing - the careful striptease by which you reveal information to the reader - matters in an article, but it is absolutely essential to a book.

Languages are something of a mess. They evolve over centuries through an unplanned, democratic process that leaves them teeming with irregularities, quirks, and words like 'knight.' ✨ Utopian for Beginners by Joshua Foer, www.newyorker.com. December 24&31, 2012.

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