“Growing up in the days when you still had to punch buttons to make a t...” — Joshua Foer Quote

“Growing up in the days when you still had to punch buttons to make a telephone call, I could recall the numbers of all my close friends and family. Today, I'm not sure if I know more than four phone numbers by heart. And that's probably more than most.”

“Truman Capote famously claimed to have nearly absolute recall of dialogue and used his prodigious memory as an excuse never to take notes or use a tape recorder, but I suspect his memory claims were just a useful cover to invent dialogue whole cloth.”

“I like to say what I think, and if it happens to push buttons, sorry.”

“I can't cut out a piece of cloth and make a lovely dress, but I can mend tears in shirts and sew on buttons.”

“Comedy always pushes some buttons, because it wouldn't be comedy if it didn't.”