“Everything I put my name to and take part in, I want to be good. That's not saying it will always happen. But I want to make bold choices.”

“Once I'd reached the point where I could squirrel away more than 30 digits a minute in memory palaces, I still only sporadically used the techniques to memorize the phone numbers of people I actually wanted to call. I found it was just too simple to punch them into my cell phone.”