“Dietrich, you know more facts than I do --”
“That’s a very good way to put it. It doesn’t mean that I am any smarter than you, or that my education is better than yours. It just means that I remember things differently than you do.”
I always liked that bit. My memory is not unlike Dietrich’s but there are many people around smarter than I am. The enormous pile of useless information in my head is entertaining, and occasionally useful, but for the most part no more significant than the fact that my feet are flat.