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Even as the Internet has revived hope of a universal library and Google seems to promise an answer to every query, books have remained a dark region in the universe of information. We want books to be as accessible and searchable as the Web. On the other hand, we still want them to be books.

~Gary Wolf

Topics: Accessible Answer Books Dark Even Every Google Hand Hope Information Internet Library Other Promise Region Remained Seems Still Them Universal Universe Want Web

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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 cable siphons audience from the major networks, and just as the Web pulls viewers from TV.

~Gary Wolf

Topics: Attention Audience Biggest Books Cable Compete Human Just Limited Long Major Massive Necessarily Networks Newly Number Tail Tv Viewers Web

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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 must be able to establish rapport with panicky callers.

~Gary Wolf

Topics: Able Balancing Being Contradictory Establish Hand Means Must Operator Other Precise Rapport Seemingly Skills

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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.

~Gary Wolf

Topics: Answer Attention Blind Errors Even Fact Field Gaps Humans Judgment Make Our Questions Simplest Sometimes Spots Stream Vision

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For all their expertise at figuring out how things work, technical people are often painfully aware how much of human behavior is a mystery. People do things for unfathomable reasons. They are opaque even to themselves.

~Gary Wolf

Topics: Aware Behavior Even Expertise Figuring How How Much Human Human Behavior Much Mystery Often Opaque Out Painfully People Reasons Technical Themselves Things Unfathomable Work

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Millions of us track ourselves all the time. We step on a scale and record our weight. We balance a checkbook. We count calories. But when the familiar pen-and-paper methods of self-analysis are enhanced by sensors that monitor our behavior automatically, the process of self-tracking becomes both more alluring and more meaningful.

~Gary Wolf

Topics: Alluring Automatically Balance Becomes Behavior Both Calories Count Enhanced Familiar Meaningful Methods Millions Monitor More Our Ourselves Process Record Scale Sensors Step Time Track Us Weight

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

~Gary Wolf

Topics: Affected Causes Hidden Idea Life Mental Our Psychology

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Journalist

Born: Unknown

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