Gary Wolf Quotes

If it's hard to remember, it'll be difficult to forget.

The process of learning requires not only hearing and applying but also forgetting and then remembering again.

It is no learning to understand what you do not retain.

When you're very young and you learn something - a fact, a piece of information, whatever - it doesn't connect to anything.

I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget.

How is it that we remember the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not remember how often we have recounted it to the same person?

I don't remember anything from college.

Nothing important is learned; it is simply remembered.

Why is it that we are born remembering, and live forgetting?

The very effort to forget teaches us to remember.

To the best of my recollection, I must recall on my memory, I cannot remember

To learn from experience, we must remember it, and, for a variety of reasons, memory is a faithless friend.

I met with amnesiacs and savants, educators and scientists, to try to understand what memory is, why it works, why it sometimes doesn't, and what its potential might be.

Tip-of-the-tongue syndrome is when people almost remember something but need a computer, or someone else, to help them find it. The problem is, our brains have always been terrible at remembering details. They were like that way before the Internet came along.

I'm always fascinated by the way memory diffuses fact.

I seem to find different material every four to six months and I frequently forget it which is a shame because it would be nice to have a bigger library.

Through this experience we have been warned - learn everything, don't forget anything!

Memory has always been fundamental for me. In fact, remembering what I had forgotten is the way most of the poems get started.

I still kind of believe this absurd line that if you have to write it down, it's not worth remembering.

It's amazing what the Internet can teach you to do.

If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.

Human memory is a marvelous but fallacious instrument. The memories which lie within us are not carved in stone; not only do they tend to become erased as the years go by, but often they change, or even increase by incorporating extraneous features.

I don't think forgetting is an important feature of human memory. I think it's important to be able to remember things accurately.

When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don't need them they drop back.

Short term memory is not good.