About Quote 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…

— Gary Wolf

The idea that our mental life is affected by hidden causes is a mainstay of psychology.

— Gary Wolf

Books are an ancient and proven medium. Their physical form inspires passion.

— 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…

— 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.…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— Gary Wolf

If national safety - the ability to respond to hurricanes, terrorist attacks, earthquakes - depends on the execution of explicit plans, on soldierly obedience,…

— Gary Wolf

The Internet's great promise is to make the world's information universally accessible and useful.

— 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…

— 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…

— Gary Wolf