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I like to remember phone numbers because it keeps your brain active. If you don't use it, you lose it.

I do have a really good memory. I mean, like, I can remember all the phone numbers of everybody on the street I grew up on.

We don't even know our friends' phone numbers anymore.

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.

A lot of people don't know how to talk on the phone anymore.

I've certainly not got any famous people's numbers on my phone. It's just not my thing, really.

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.

We're visual creatures. Probably, when we were hunter gatherers... that was the kind of thing that mattered. And remembering, say, phone numbers was, like, not that important when you're hunting down a mastodon or whatever.

I literally change my phone number 10 times a year and I don't ever save my contacts.

When I was going to school in, like, '84 to '88, you didn't have cell phones. There was no e-mail, if you can wrap your brain around that.