--- title: "1 Errors Judgment Quotes By Gary Wolf" description: "1 Errors Judgment quotes by Gary Wolf. Plus more from Gary Wolf and more Errors Judgment sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b09/gary-wolf-21784_answer_humans-make-errors-we-make-errors-of-fac_2938467.jpg" --- > [Humans make errors. We make errors of fact and errors of judgment. We have blind spots in our field of vision and gaps in our stream of attention. Sometimes we can't even answer the simplest questions.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gary-wolf/humans-make-errors-we-make-errors-of-fact-and-errors-of-judgment-we/) [Gary Wolf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gary-wolf/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b09/gary-wolf-21784_answer_humans-make-errors-we-make-errors-of-fac_2938467.jpg) ## More by Gary Wolf > [Though social eugenics was discredited long ago, we still often think of the genome in quasi-eugenic terms. When we read about the latest discovery…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gary-wolf/though-social-eugenics-was-discredited-long-ago-we-still-often-think/) [Gary Wolf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gary-wolf/) > [The idea that our mental life is affected by hidden causes is a mainstay of psychology.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gary-wolf/the-idea-that-our-mental-life-is-affected-by-hidden-causes-is-a/) [Gary Wolf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gary-wolf/) > [Books are an ancient and proven medium. Their physical form inspires passion.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gary-wolf/books-are-an-ancient-and-proven-medium-their-physical-form-inspires/) [Gary Wolf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gary-wolf/) > [SuperMemo is based on the insight that there is an ideal moment to practice what you've learned. Practice too soon and you waste your…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gary-wolf/supermemo-is-based-on-the-insight-that-there-is-an-ideal-moment-to/) [Gary Wolf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gary-wolf/) > [Every day the choristers of the social web chirp their advice about openness and trust; craigslist follows none of it, and every day it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gary-wolf/every-day-the-choristers-of-the-social-web-chirp-their-advice-about/) [Gary Wolf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gary-wolf/) > [Millions of us track ourselves all the time. We step on a scale and record our weight. We balance a checkbook. We count calories.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gary-wolf/millions-of-us-track-ourselves-all-the-time-we-step-on-a-scale-and/) [Gary Wolf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gary-wolf/) > [The self is just our operation center, our consciousness, our moral compass. So, if we want to act more effectively in the world, we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gary-wolf/the-self-is-just-our-operation-center-our-consciousness-our-moral/) [Gary Wolf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gary-wolf/) > [Being a 911 operator means balancing seemingly contradictory skills. On one hand, operators have to be fanatically precise and well-organized. On the other, they…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gary-wolf/being-a-911-operator-means-balancing-seemingly-contradictory-skills/) [Gary Wolf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gary-wolf/) > [The fondest dream of the information age is to create an archive of all knowledge. You might call it the Alexandrian fantasy, after the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gary-wolf/the-fondest-dream-of-the-information-age-is-to-create-an-archive-of/) [Gary Wolf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gary-wolf/) > [If national safety - the ability to respond to hurricanes, terrorist attacks, earthquakes - depends on the execution of explicit plans, on soldierly obedience,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gary-wolf/if-national-safety-the-ability-to-respond-to-hurricanes-terrorist/) [Gary Wolf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gary-wolf/) > [The Internet's great promise is to make the world's information universally accessible and useful.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gary-wolf/the-internet-s-great-promise-is-to-make-the-world-s-information/) [Gary Wolf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gary-wolf/) > [Even as the Internet has revived hope of a universal library and Google seems to promise an answer to every query, books have remained…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gary-wolf/even-as-the-internet-has-revived-hope-of-a-universal-library-and/) [Gary Wolf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gary-wolf/) > [The problem of forgetting might not torment us so much if we could only convince ourselves that remembering isn't important. Perhaps the things we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gary-wolf/the-problem-of-forgetting-might-not-torment-us-so-much-if-we-could/) [Gary Wolf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gary-wolf/) > [People are saying, 'Big Data is the new oil.'](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gary-wolf/people-are-saying-big-data-is-the-new-oil/) [Gary Wolf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gary-wolf/) > [Human attention is limited, and a massive number of newly browsable books from the long tail necessarily compete with the biggest best-sellers, just as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gary-wolf/human-attention-is-limited-and-a-massive-number-of-newly-browsable/) [Gary Wolf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gary-wolf/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/errors-judgment/gary-wolf/#itemlist", "name": "1 Errors Judgment Quotes By Gary Wolf", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Humans make errors. 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