我们都是由记忆塑造的一堆习惯。就我们控制自己的生活而言，我们是通过逐渐改变这些习惯，即我们的记忆网络来实现的。外部记忆从来没有产生过持久的笑话、发明、洞察力或艺术作品。至少现在还没有。
(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 lasting joke, or invention, or insight, or work of art was ever produced by an external memory. Not yet, at least.)