It's getting harder and harder to know, when you find things on the Internet, what you can believe and what you can't.

A song playing comprises a very specific and vivid set of memory cues. Because the multiple-trace memory models assume that context is encoded along with memory traces, the music that you have listened to at various times of your life is cross-coded with the events of those times. That is, the music is linked to events of the time, and those events are linked to the music.

We're making more and more decisions every day. I think a lot of us feel overloaded by the process.

Americans spend more money on music than on sex or prescription drugs

The kind of people who become graphic artists may not be mathematically inclined. They're artists, artistically inclined.

No other species lives with regret over past events, or makes deliberate plans for future ones.

The Roman philosopher Seneca the Younger (tutor to Nero) complained that his peers were wasting time and money accumulating too many books, admonishing that "the abundance of books is a distraction." Instead, Seneca recommended focusing on a limited number of good books, to be read thoroughly and repeatedly.