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> [Every day the choristers of the social web chirp their advice about openness and trust; craigslist follows none of it, and every day it grows.](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/)

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> [Fortunately, human forgetting follows a pattern. We forget exponentially. A graph of our likelihood of getting the correct answer on a quiz sweeps quickly downward over time and then levels off.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gary-wolf/fortunately-human-forgetting-follows-a-pattern-we-forget/)

[Gary Wolf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gary-wolf/)

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## 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/)

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