Working Memory Capacity

Famous quotes containing the words working, memory and/or capacity:

“I am not responsible for the successful working of the machinery of society.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“A man of sense, though born without wit, often lives to have wit. His memory treasures up ideas and reflections; he compares them with new occurrences, and strikes out new lights from the collision. The consequence is sometimes bons mots, and sometimes apothegms.”
—Horace Walpole (1717–1797)

“There is also something excellent in every audience,—the capacity of virtue. They are ready to be beatified.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)