Working Memory Capacity

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

    “That book is good
    Which puts me in a working mood.
    Unless to Thought be added Will
    Apollo is an imbecile.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “For my name and memory I leave to men’s charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages.”
    —Francis Bacon (1561–1626)

    “Modern man’s capacity for destruction is quixotic evidence of humanity’s capacity for reconstruction. The powerful technological agents we have unleashed against the environment include many of the agents we require for its reconstruction.”
    —George F. Will (b. 1941)