I have terrible short-term memory loss, which I like to think of as Presidential eligibility.
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"Paula Poundstone: Look What the Cat Dragged In", Bravo channel, November 7, 2006Paula Poundstone
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When comparing human memory and computer memory it is clear that the human version has two distinct disadvantages. Firstly, as indeed I have experienced myself, due to aging, human memory can exhibit very poor short term recall.
Kevin Warwick
Any strategy that involves crossing a valley—accepting short-term losses to reach a higher hill in the distance—will soon be brought to a halt by the demands of a system that celebrates short-term gains and tolerates stagnation, but condemns anything else as failure. In short, a world where big stuff can never get done.
Neal Stephenson
Perl is another example of filling a tiny, short-term need, and then being a real problem in the longer term. Basically, a lot of the problems that computing has had in the last 25 years comes from systems where the designers were trying to fix some short-term thing and didn’t think about whether the idea would scale if it were adopted. There should be a half-life on software so old software just melts away over 10 or 15 years.
Alan Kay
We tend to overestimate what we can do in the short term and underestimate what we can do in the long term.
Tim Hurson
It is totally unproven that the increase in the money supply has a short term or medium term connection with inflation and prices.
Denis Healey
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