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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.

People have no memory of phone numbers now because of the cell phone - their address book is in a cell phone.

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

I really don't care about my numbers.

The Google Voice service is a lifesaver for me. My actual phone number changes a lot, so having a canonical Google Voice number that doesn't change - it's actually my same number from high school - is indispensable.

At the end of the year, you'll see my numbers. My numbers are always there.

I have a home phone number, and I like it! It's like a throwback already.

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.